RE: [gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after updating world

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John covici [mailto:covici@××××××××××.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 2:59 PM
> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after
updating
> world
>
> on Wednesday 12/12/2007 Marzan, Richard non
> Unisys(Richard.Marzan@××××××.com) wrote
>  > John,
>  >
>  >
>  > 	I remember having the same problem before and I believe that
>  > deleting the appropriate .gnome and .gnome2 directories would fix
the
>  > problem. I'm not sure why this happens or why this solution worked
for
>  > me but it did. You might lose some settings. Do not worry because
the
>  > .gnome and .gnome2 directories will be recreated as soon as you try
to
>  > run gnome.
>  >
>  > Regards,
>  >
>  > Richard
>  >
>
> Unfortunately, no joy, I started xinit and I have in my /root
> directory a .xinitrc which says
> exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session
> but all I got was a message on the text console which said waiting for
> the server to shut down, so we have a server problem as well,
> apparently.
>
>
>  >
>  > > -----Original Message-----
>  > > From: John covici [mailto:covici@××××××××××.com]
>  > > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2007 3:43 AM
>  > > To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
>  > > Subject: [gentoo-user] gnome-session no longer starts after
updating
>  > world
>  > >
>  > > Hi.  After upgrading my system using emerge --update --deep
>  > > --with-bdeps=y world I am no longer able to use x-windows.  I saw
a
>  > > message for one package connection refused by server, but I saw
that
>  > > gnome-session had ended and that no other gnome apps had
hstarted.
>  > > There is nothing in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log, so I have no idea
how to
>  > > trouble shoot this at all.  I am using nvidia drivers 100.14.19
and
>  > > gentoo sources of 2.6.21-r4.
>  > >
>  > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
>  > >
>  > > --
>  > > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The
question
> is:
>  > > How do
>  > > you spend it?
>  > >
>  > >          John Covici
>  > >          covici@××××××××××.com
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John,


	Are you running X as root. I don't think that's a good idea. Try
running it as a normal user. And try using exec gnome-session in your
.xinitrc files. See if that works for you.
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