White Gnome

[Silver-0-surfer]

Hi guys

Recently I wanted to test out gnome-shell so i yum installed it and when I tried to activate the gnome-shell my pc crashed, I rebooted and now gnome is just a white screen, it cant do anything. I had the ctrl+alt+f2 and install KDE to carry on working.

Does anyone have some ideas how to get it working again? I have created a test user and gnome works fine under that account so Im sure its some config file somewhere that needs to be fixed/deleted but i don't really know where the culprit is.

i have deleted
.gnome2_private
.gnome2
.gconfd
.gconf

but still the white gnome persists, any help would be awesome KDE is like way too weird for me

 

[DrJohnZoidberg]

This may sound like a silly question, but have you removed gnome-shell?

 

[MickZA]

You say you have created a working_user account that works in gnome so try the following (after backing up the current faulty_user home directory ./.g* files).

From a terminal:

su root

cd /home/working_user

tar -zcvf /tmp/good_gnome.tgz ./.gcon* ./.gnom*

tar -zxvf /tmp/good_gnome.tgz -C /home/faulty_user

chgrp -R faulty_user /home/faulty_user/.gcon*

chown -R faulty_user /home/faulty_user/.gcon*

chgrp -R faulty_user /home/faulty_user/.gnom*

chown -R faulty_user /home/faulty_user/.gnom*

Log out and test.