I discovered this and was able to recover, and think gnome could do with a fix. I put together a script to completely erase gnome from this system and for the most part that script worked really well. The exception was that it also removed wpa_supplicant since I had cascading and recursive and unneeded packages being removed. Without wpa_supplicant on a system that system in command line mode isn't getting out onto the internet. I put wpa_supplicant back on the system using the install disk I have and the internet at least is working correctly. I was trying to get orca talking on the system and couldn't do it so figured it's best if I start with a clean slate which is the reason for the removal script. I'll run it for xorg and mate before I'm finished and try to get all of this stuff running again without questionable configuration files on the system. I think I may get lucky. According to email from another list, apparently neither gdm nor lightdm will get us screen reader users to a talking orca, but xorg should get that job done. If someone has the time, please run sudo -H Xorg --configure and let me know if that command errors out with a segmentation fault at address 0x50 or any other address or if you get a configuration file generated. It could be xorg configuration on this system is also messed up beyond repair and I'll have to clean that out too. --