try as root chown YOURUSER:users /home/YOURUSER -R this should fix your permission problems if it still don't load create a new user with a new home directory start gnome there if it loads copy over your backups like .mozilla .amsn and stuff gnome once failed to load when i installed gentoo after ubuntu and that's what fixed it for me
-- Cheers, Ghaith -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
