Gnome problems

[mpoland]

I'm having some problems with Gnome. A colleague, who shares ownership of my linux workstation (running RedHat Enterprise Linux 3, kernel 2.4.21-15.0.2.ELsmp) recently as root killed by gnome session. This has corrupted something in my gnome settings, since now whenever I log in I the screen turns black and numerous windows appear filled with dashes and other strange characters. I can't even log out! However, other users on the machine can run gnome with no problems whatsoever and I have been able to run KDE, so I know that it is not a system-wide problem but rather just associated with my account.

Can anyone suggest what files might have been corrupted by my colleague's kill command? There are several gnome-related files/directories in my home, like .gnome, .gnome2, and .gnome-desktop, but it is not clear to me which files in these might need to be replaced, or even how to replace the files. I would be grateful for any advice.

Thanks,
Mike Poland

[happybunny]

my only suggestion would be to delete the gnome stuff out of your folder and log back in. This should rebulid gnome with the default stuff--i think in /etc/shell