Gnome issues

[Derek Ragona]

At 06:46 AM 8/24/2007, Michael S wrote:
>Good day all,
>
>I installed Gnome a few days ago and everything had
>been fine up until last night. I shutdown the computer
>using  a Gnome menu (and not shutdown -p now) and upon
>restart one of my drives (the one mapped to /home)
>wasn't working. After I did get it to work and able to
>return to using GNOME, but when I login using GDM, I
>don't see the desktop pager and the windows don't have
>any decorations (e.g. borders, close/minimize
>buttons). I am not an expert, but looks like the
>window manager got corrupted by that improper
>shutdown.
>Anyone had similar experiences? Any ideas how to
>rectify this?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Michael

Sounds like your drive may be having issues.  I would reboot in single user 
mode and fsck the drive.  You may also want to try the drive manufacturer's 
diagnostic utility.

         -Derek

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