Thanks, Andrew. I will check those possibilities. A problem with the graphics drivers seems likely in that I get the same result with my default (test) user as with my own personal login. However, logging in as root gives a perfectly normal Gnome screen.So it may be that somehow a permission got changed. What's odd is that this all happened in the course of moving the cursor around and the abrt error message suggests it was moving the cursor across the clock that caused the problem.
I'm not sure if my previous email came out as intended as it was done on the faulty machine.... I hope the abrt-cli messages were readable Thanks again, Malcolm ________________________________________ From: Andrew Hart <[email protected]> Sent: 12 October 2016 14:43 To: MAH Maccallum Subject: re: problem Gnome restarting during login can be sometimes caused by users not being able to write to their home directory. Have you checked that? You could Ctrl-alt-f2 for a console login to test. Another thing that has caused it for me is graphics drivers, did you upgrade/change that? >I have a recently set up SL 7.2 using Gnome. Something very strange happened >while trying to use the mouse and now only root can log in and get a sensible >screen. All other users, including newly->created ones, just get a dark screen >and a restart. Here's the output from abrt-cli.
