More info: I've updated the Fedora box to FC 6 and now it gives me the well-known error message about the GNOME Settings Daemon failing to start. The desktop environment does come up about a minute later however.
-- gnome-settings-daemon crashes at login https://launchpad.net/bugs/61381 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
