FC6

Steve Riley · 11-21-2006, 11:27 AM

On a fresh install of FC6 when rebooting I get the message:

"Cannot find or run base session script. Running the Gnome failsafe session instead."

I'm then in gnome.

When I boot from the power being off, it just get the command line login - not even the gui login.

Thanks for any help.

Steve Riley · 11-21-2006, 03:16 PM

Updating packages fixed it, but I'm still curious as to what happened and why.

Thanks

Keithj · 07-21-2007, 11:18 AM

I just installed Fedora 7 on my main desktop machine (thinking about moving away from Windows altogether) - and got the same "Cannot find or run the base session script. Running the GNOME failsafe session instead".

This was a clean install off the Fedora 7 DVD, so I'm a bit surprised. Thanks for your mention of the "fix" - I'll set it to do a full update tonight - there are 137 packages to update, according to the popup that arrives soon after Gnome starts.

I think maybe I'll be staying dual Windows/Linux for a little bit longer.

Keithj · 07-21-2007, 02:17 PM

Well, I ran a full update, and that took me from 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 to 2.6.22-1.27.fc7 but still I get "Cannot find or run the base session script. Running the GNOME failsfe session instead."

Mutter mutter,

Does anyone know what the base session script is that it's looking for, or where to find and install it?