opvask Posted August 27, 2007 Report Share Posted August 27, 2007 in Mandriva 2007.1 Spring, when I install Gnome (task-gnome or task-gnome-minimal) I run into problems. I must add that I normally use auto login on boot. 1. I cannot login to Gnome. Gnome will hang during login. The splash screen will appear but then nothing else happens. 2. I cannot login to (my main environment) KDE instead. The system will automatically choose Gnome during boot, but as mentioned in #1, Gnome does not startup properly. If I use CTRL+ALT+Backspace I can go back to the Login screen, but if I try to login to KDE then I will be directed back to the login screen immediately. The same thing will happen if I try with failsafe. How to solve this? Why does Gnome hang during boot? All files needed should be installed with "task-gnome". How can I manage to login with KDE again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted August 27, 2007 Report Share Posted August 27, 2007 Sounds like some problems with the ICEauthority file. Try to fix it by launching the following command as root (press ctrl+alt+F1 for console mode as root, press ctrl+alt+F7 for getting back to the graphical login): chown username /home/username/.ICEauthority after that restart the Xserver with ctrl+alt+backspace. Hope that fixes it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opvask Posted September 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2007 Thanks for the suggestion even though it did not solve the problem. I have been out of town for a while so I have not been able to try this before now. I did manage to solve the problem today though. I did a real quick "ctrl+alt+backspace" immediately when the nvidia screen appeared. I was then able to go to the login screen before Gnome started loading and log in to KDE. :) Now I only wonder why Gnome keeps hanging when installed with task-gnome. It has never worked for me in 2007.1 Thanks for the help O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted September 11, 2007 Report Share Posted September 11, 2007 If correcting permissions doesn't fix it, then Mandriva really borked it tremendously. Actually, I got sick of the many bugs in 2007.1 that no one cared about to correct that I upgraded to cooker some weeks ago, where I at least got some kind of fixes for the previously broken gnome packages. QA still sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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