Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-04 Thread Joe Zeff
On 02/04/2014 03:55 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: I get a black screen with a mouse cursor. Nothing else happens after that besides a little drive activity for a minute or so and even that goes away. I use Xfce. Recently, on my desktop only (F19) it's been doing something odd: if I've

Re: gnome-shell won't start (Solved)

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Turns out I had an old dot file that was setting LANG=en_US, when it should have been en_US.UTF-8. Once I hunted that down and fixed it I got logged into gnome-shell with no problems. -- Stephen Berg Systems Administrator NRL Code: 7320 Office: 228-688-5738 stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil --

Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-04 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 4 February 2014 13:55, Stephen Berg (Contractor) < stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote: > On 02/04/2014 01:23 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: > > On 3 February 2014 19:40, Stephen Berg (Contractor) < > stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote: > >> I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged o

Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
On 02/04/2014 07:59 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: I see Sounds like you may have some strange interaction between NIS/NFS and GNOME. Have you tried booting your F20 system to run level 3, logging in, and then trying to run "startx" to see if maybe it spits out anything useful? Just tried that. S

Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/04/14 21:47, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: > On 02/04/2014 06:48 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> One thing you could try is to switch from using GDM to KDM. >> > Tried that this morning and get pretty much the same results. I can log into > KDE no problem, gnome-shell from KDM just gets me a cu

Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
On 02/04/2014 06:48 AM, Ed Greshko wrote: One thing you could try is to switch from using GDM to KDM. Tried that this morning and get pretty much the same results. I can log into KDE no problem, gnome-shell from KDM just gets me a cursor and a background image instead of the black screen I go

Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 02/04/14 19:55, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: > On 02/04/2014 01:23 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: >> On 3 February 2014 19:40, Stephen Berg (Contractor) >> mailto:stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil>> >> wrote: >> >> I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using >> gnome.

Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-04 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
On 02/04/2014 01:23 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 3 February 2014 19:40, Stephen Berg (Contractor) > wrote: I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using gnome. GDM starts, I put in user name and password and the login sta

Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-03 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 3 February 2014 19:40, Stephen Berg (Contractor) < stephen.berg@nrlssc.navy.mil> wrote: > I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using > gnome. GDM starts, I put in user name and password and the login starts > but I never get a desktop loaded and usable. > > What

Re: gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-03 Thread g
On 02/03/2014 11:40 AM, Stephen Berg (Contractor) wrote: I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using gnome. GDM starts, I put in user name and password and the login starts but I never get a desktop loaded and usable. being a kde user, i can not suggest to look for.

gnome-shell won't start

2014-02-03 Thread Stephen Berg (Contractor)
I'm having a rather serious issue getting logged onto my system using gnome. GDM starts, I put in user name and password and the login starts but I never get a desktop loaded and usable. Fedora 20 gnome-shell-3.10.3-2 Nvidia GT330 NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-331.38.run compiled locally from geforce.co