Re: Gnome problems
Yes, yes, yes!! Thanks very much.
Art Edwards
On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 09:36:58AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 15:45:09 -0600
> edwardsa <edwardsa@afrl.kirtland.af.mil> wrote:
>
> > Gnome has been giving me mysterious problems. I am running a testing
> > amd64 installation (gnome 2.14). My install was very problematic. The
> > package that checks signatures debsig-verify wouldn't allow many
> > packages to install. When I removed it, the installation continued,
> > but had many holes that I had to fix manually. When gnome came up,
> > the top tool bar was sparsely populated. It did not have a main
> > applications menu. I have since installed one, along with many other
> > gnome packages. After this installation exercise, I rebooted and
> > gnome would not come up. The top and bottom toolbars would blink
> > maybe 10-15 times and then die. cntrl-alt-backspace would simply kill
> > the graphics screen, leading to removing and restarting gdm. When I
> > ran gnome in safemode, I recieved many OAF (object activation
> > framework) errors about the applets in my tool bar. When I installed
> > the liboaf-dev, I no longer received errors in the safemode and gnome
> > came up normally. However, when I tried to install the system monitor
> > applet, I received oaf errors again. Is there a known problem with
> > the system monitor applet?
> >
> > I should also point out that I installed many of the theme packages,
> > and that these have not shown up in the theme chooser. It seems that
> > I have an infirmed gnome installation.
> >
> > Art Edwards
> >
> >
>
> I would try the following:
>
> 1. Exit GNOME
> 2. Run 'apt-get install gnome-core' to ensure that all the essential
> GNOME packages and their dependencies are in place.
> 3. Delete the ~/.gnome*, ~/.gconf*, ~/.metacity, and ~/.nautilus
> directories. (This step will cause you to lose any customisation.)
> 4. Start GNOME again
>
> Any better?
>
> --
>
> Liam
>
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