Re: Gnome3 login failure
Jon Dowland <jmtd <at> debian.org> writes:
>
> On 24/01/12 14:56, Richard wrote:
> > Out of the blue, when I try to login to the shell I get after a few second
that dreaded something has
> > gone wrong message and to logout.
> > Is Gnome3 similar in behaviour to Gnome2 that removing the .gnome files will
cause them to be recreated
> > on login ?
> > Or any other ideas ???
>
> Can you use the "GNOME classic" session?
>
> Can a freshly-created test user use the normal "GNOME" session?
>
Me too. I fixed it by editing /etc/profile. It seems that one of the commands
did not complete successfully. When I disabled it, I could login successfully
again. Normal logins did not suffer from this problem.
Simon
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