LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] GNOME display only shows cursor and wallpaper and right-click also do not work

Hi,

I just started having this problem suddenly.

When I log in locally, only cursor and the wallpaper show up (no icons, menu, etc.). The right-click also does not work. But if any other user, including root, logs in, it works fine!
Same thing happens if I try to log in to any other machines (our home directories are NFS mapped). This leads me to believe something got corrupt in my home, but I cannot fathom what!

Everything seems to work fine if I switch my desktop session from gnome to kde!

So I tried deleting .gnome, .gnome2, .gnome_private, .gnome-desktop, .gconf, and .gconfd directories with hope that something was corrupt there and when I log in next, they will be created automatically with correct parameters. But this did not help. The directories were created, but my problem remains same.

Also I can log in fine via ssh. But if I want to launch something like gedit GUI from ssh -X sessions, no display is launched, no warning or errors are also shown on the terminal. But if I want to launch kwrite, it works fine! So something is wrong in gnome sessions?

All the machines are CentOs 5.8 (including the NFS server).

This is my .xsession-errors file:

Code:

somesh@permian ~$ cat .xsession-errors

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with utmp

/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l ":0" "somesh"

localuser:somesh being added to access control list

No profile for user 'somesh' found

permian.workstation.com

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SESSION_MANAGER=local/permian.workstation.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/18764

Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension

libnm_glib_nm_state_cb: dbus returned an error.

  (org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown) The name org.freedesktop.NetworkManager was not provided by any .service files

warning: python-dbus not installed.



HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.12.11)

System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0



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Introspect error: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 0

Introspect error: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 0

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could not attach to desktop process

could not attach to desktop process

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Any suggestion where to look for the errors?

TIA,
Somesh