Re: More on: Cannot load GNOME under Sarge

[Jim Seymour <bluejay@speedfactory.net>]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 12:11:10PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:37:40AM -0500, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > When I first installed Debian I discovered I was missing a needed 
> > package for GNOME. Although that never fixed the problem I was poking 
> > around in the GNOME packages again and found out I supposedly do not 
> > have gnome-control-center installed. An apt-get install 
> > gnome-control-center gave an ominous message about removing gnome-core.
> 
> That's fine. The old gnome-core has been replaced by other packages.
> It's now a metapackage (not in testing yet, but should be soon), and the
> conflict is only against versions of gnome-core older than the
> metapackage.
> 

I installed the gnome-control-center package and am getting closer. It 
still will not log into GNOME though. The window that popped up with the 
error message no longer appears. It just fails to load GNOME. From 
.xsession-errors I have:

Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

I am guessing that there are still some packages missing from the 
install. Does not seem to be a permissions issue since I get the same 
errors from both root and user.

Thanks,

Jim Seymour