Re: proper gnome startup procedure

["Bruce Z. Lysik" <eldrik logrus com>]

> This is true for me also -- gnome-session has never worked on my (RH5.2,
> using xdm as X manager) system. I log in, it churns for 10 seconds, then
> pops me back out to the login prompt. xconsole doesn't show anything, and
> .xsession-errors is likewise blank.
> 
> What can I do to help debug this?

I had a similar problem.  Then I noticed my /usr/local/share tree didn't 
have permissions set right.  755'd it all and then mostly everything started
working right.

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Bruce Z. Lysik  <eldrik@logrus.com>