> Are you getting any error messages that could give us a hint? There should
> be something in the "/var/log/messages" file. Also, as far as I remember
> Gnome tends to leave a file in your home directory with a pretty clear name.
> It's something like whatever.error or something like that. Any hints there?
>
i'll check it out and try the alternative of xdm and hopefully re-establish gnome
......:)
> Another thing you could try to at least avoid the problem for the time
> being and get a working system is to edit the "/etc/X11/prefdm" file as
> root (always make a backup copy first by copying the file to something like
> prefdm.bak). It's a shell script that should be easy to read. Basically,
> if your "/etc/sysconfig/desktop" specifies Gnome as your preferred desktop
> environment, line 12 will set the system to launch gdm upon startup. You
> may want to change that to "kdm" or "xdm" and see if at least that way
> you get a working system.
>
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