[ILUG] Fedora core 5 / Gnome freezing on bootup

[Robert Sweetnam]

David wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> My laptop is freezing after logging in as ROOT at the Metacity icon on 
> the splash screen.  There is nothing I can do to resume after this.  
> If I log in as a user all works as it should any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> D
Hi.
On the console type the following commands:

init 3        #Changes to run level 3 to stop gdm
cd /root
rm -r -f .gnome
rm -r -r .gnome2
init 5      #Changed to run level 5 to restart gdm

Cheers
Robert