Gnome wont load anymore due to a hard reboot. Please help.

thedeadlyquiche · n00b Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 33

Today I was trying to get my mouse scroll wheel to work so I was following a guide for editing my xorg.conf. After that I ran startx and my computer completely crashed. So I had to hard reboot.
Since then I have not been able to load gnome.
Xsession works fine,. But when I load gnome, I get a black screen with the X for a mouse thingy.

When I run gdm it loads the gnome log-in screen, but once logged in it crashes the same as if I ran startx.
It is doing this for root and my normal user account.
Please help me, I have a large project due next week and I can't access what I have done already until this is fixed.

TheRAt · Veteran Joined: 03 Jun 2002 Posts: 1580

I would suggest maybe undoing the changes you made to your xorg.conf file..
If this does not get you back, try removing (renaming) the gnome preferences for your user (or create a new test account) and seeing if this works..
Please report results..
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padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

if the xinit starts ok do mv /root /mnt
mkdir /root
then it will change the .config for gnome in the new root folder.
if the x itself will not start u might have made a xorg.conf backup rename it to xorg.conf and make the current current xorg.conf xorg.conf1
most likely it would solve. else u will have re emerge X11xorg
hard resettings we may have to do many times while the system gets stuck.
hard resetting cannot kill the system. gentoo is really very hard once installed properly
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GoingDown · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 6:21 am Post subject:

olger901 · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2005 Posts: 625

and if that does not work going to : /var/tmp and removing everything in that directory might solve the problem (It did once for me!).
If that still does not solve the problem try chmodding /var/tmp to 777 temporarily and see if that fixes the problem.

padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

What good can be achived by moving root's home directory to /mnt?

Hopefully you are NOT running your system as root all the time. Besides, it is not good idea to move your home folder completely.

Instead, if your gnome settings are borked, you can just run:

moving the /root to /mnt and mkdir /root gives the system to start afresh as first time booting.not nly desktop settings of gnome xauth .config .mozilla and many such folders can stop the gnome /kde from starting.
thats why mv /root
unless u r root u cannot mv /root
after u successfully start u can copy old required folders back to /root and finally
rm -rf /mnt/root
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GoingDown · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject:

GoingDown · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 12:08 pm Post subject:

padoor · Advocate Joined: 30 Dec 2005 Posts: 4185 Location: india

still we have not heard from thedeadlyquiche whos gnome is not starting!!!

do a console login as root and check with nano -w the above files for information.
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