gui login issue

[Husse]

A change in grub should not result in this - but could
(I think)
Please post your /boot/grub/menu.lst

[scorp123]

any thoughts?

Sounds like you messed around with the permissions of your original account and now GNOME can't read its settings anymore. Non-GUI logins still work because those files are most likely ignored for shell-only logins.

I suggest you compare the permissions of all the GNOME-relevant files and sub-directories (and all the files underneath those), e.g.

• .config
  Desktop
  .dmrc
  .gconf
  .gconfd
  .gnome
  .gnome2
  .gnome2_private
  .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
  .metacity

Please note that this is obviously from my system, so it could be that you may not have all items listed above.

So please compare that file list and the permissions between the account that works and the one that doesn't work anymore.

Directories should be owned by your normal user and your user's group (both could have the same name), and permissions on those directories should be 755 (or 750 if you want to be restrictive); permissions on normal files should be 644 (or 640 if you want to be restrictive). And in case you don't understand what those numbers mean:

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man chmod
man chown

And please: Do not use the "-R" parameter (see the man page) and do not recursively change permissions unless one of the local gurus here tells you to, OK? People often get tempted to use a "chmod -R ..." in all the wrong places.

[Husse]

It's not the grub - I thought that you could have made recovery mode the standard choice or added some parameters that should not be there...
So check permissions, and it can't be emphasized enough - be careful.