This is too weird! As per my prior message I followed up by adjusting: /etc/hosts and /etc/network/interfaces and removing ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback -- actually I didn't adjust the later file since the lo loopback reference was already there. The result when I restarted the session was no different -- still the usual error(s). I then decided to change my theme back to the original "Human". I restarted the session and since then there has been no problems (however something is wrong with my themes as the window cannot read all the existing themes and seems to stall...) Just out of interest I added the ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback line again and GNOME still has no problems starting.
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