Unable to Start Gnome after 3.0.1 yum updates

[Anthony Lanni]

Abre, I had a similar problem; I got KDE started and reset the date.  
There is something in GNOME
that prevents X from starting when the hardware and system date don't 
match up; see

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/clock.shtml

Norberto Quintanar wrote:

>from the command line are you able to start gdm or kdm?  If you can
>start KDM then choose gnome and start, I would venture to guess you
>fried gnome.  But if you can't start either, I venture a guess you
>fried X.  Reconfigure it from the command line using
>Xautoconfigurator 
>
>--- Abre Chase <achase@outstart.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I recently upgraded my Pismo G3 laptop from YDL 2.3 to 3.0.1 (clean
>>re-install).  3.0.1 was running smoothly, so I decided to run yum
>>and
>>get it up to date.
>>
>>After applying the updates and rebooting the system, I am unable to
>>run
>>gnome.
>>
>>I login via text-based and run the startx command to launch
>>X/Gnome.
>>
>>I get a few errors like "There was an error starting the GNOME
>>Settings
>>Daemon....The Settings Daemon restarted too many times."  "Nautilus
>>can't be used now, due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when
>>attempting to register the file manager view server".
>>
>>The the dump says:
>>
>>...
>>(EE) FBDEV(0): FBIOPAN_DISPLAY: Invalid argument
>>SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost.localdomain:tmp/.ICE-unix-890
>>** (gnome-panel:1000): WARNING **: Failed to send buffer
>>Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
>>Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to 0:0 broken (explicit kill or server
>>shutdown).
>>...
>>
>>Does anyone have any advice on this?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>- Abre Chase
>>
>>
>>
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