Hi everyone! I installed Slackware 10.2 on my Gateway laptop (SOLO 5300). Everything was great with the KDE desktop. I decided to install GNOME 2.12. I am also running the 2.6.13 kernel on linux. GNOME won't load now and the last line I have is "Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! /root/.xintrc: line 31: /usr/bin/dbus-launch: Success

waiting for X server to shut down

When I type fc-cache, I also get the following errors:
Can't save cache in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF"
Can't save cache in "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"

I don't recall having this problem before installing GNOME. KDE does work fine as well as all the other environments. Any help would be appreciated.

are you trying to run it as root?

It doesn't matter how I log in; if it's by using root or any other user, it cancels out. It does attempt to go in; the mouse cursor comes up, but then exits out. Thanks for the replies in advance. JF

How did you install Gnome? Look into installing Dropline Gnome - you won't regret it.

I'd like to thank everyone for the support and responses. I don't know whether it might just be a hardware issue (graphic card probably) or what, but I'm going back to the KDE desktop. It worked well, but I just wanted to try GNOME out. The dropline-Gnome also failed. Unless someone has another solution, I'd try it out; for the moment, I'll go back to KDE. JF