Desktop won't come up after update

Hello,
After today's update, my desktop won't come up anymore. When I enter my password in the login box, the sad face comes up telling me: “Oh no. Something has gone wrong. Log out try again”
The first time when rebooted after the update, my desktop came up, but very slowly. And I noticed right away that my gtk themes and icons were not rendered properly. Then, I rebooted again and now my desktop won't come up.
I dont remember all my updates but for sure 'xorg-server' and 'xorg-server-common' were among them. I dont know this is any use.
During update I didn't have any error message.
My system:
AMD dual core 2.6
Memory: 6 gb
Video: Radeon HD 3600 (using open source driver)
Desktop: Gnome 3.2

ConnorBehan wrote:
jmak wrote:"If you tell GDM to send stderr to a file, are there any errors?" This part I don't quite understand.
In your "/etc/inittab" file, you probably have a line that looks like "x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon". Modify this line to be "x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/gdm -nodaemon 2>/home/some_file". Then errors encountered should be printed to /home/some_file.
jmak wrote:GDM wasn't part of the update and when I try to login typing 'startx' I get the message “command not found”
Then you need the package xorg-xinit.
I istalled 'xorg-xinit' and now when I type startx I get:
“Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0”

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