Have you also checked in the /etc/pam.d/* ? Your mate desktop will
probably use a different pam-auth into the system from the one gnome
will use.
I remember that way back in the past I always had to change at least one
pam.d file before beeing able to login from gnome desktop.
suomi
On 08/08/2016 08:26 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2016 at 11:05:40AM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 08/08/2016 10:24 AM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>>> As a no brainer I eliminated all traces of gnome
>>> and gconf under my home directory. Result was
>>> same error.
>>
>> This is probably a dumb question, but did you make sure there weren't any
>> gnome-related dot files left, such as .gnome3 or something similar? Also,
>> check under .config if you haven't. I don't really think this is the
issue,
>> but it can't hurt to be sure.
>
> Yes, I did. Also under ~/.local.
> I finished with find's of "-iname '*gnome*'" and "-iname
'*gconf*'".
>
> One further test, created a new user and it could not login into
> gnome either.
>
> Jon
>