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Re: gnome2 hang (solved)



Ron Jones wrote:
> Hi Timo,

Hello Ron,

Sorry for the late reply.

> 
> Saw your post on debian-user about hanging at splash screen. I have the
> same problem, did you get anywhere with fixing this?
> 

Yes, the problem on my side was caused by the name scheme change in
Debians GNOME2 packages. To allow co-existing w/ GNOME1 packages, the
previous name scheme was this:
gnome2-[something]
gnome-[something]2

Some of my core GNOME2 packages were installed using this scheme. But
for the last few months, this name scheme is changing to a form
without a appended "2" suffix. So, an apt-get dist-upgrade failed,
because the according dependencies were not matched in version, but
not causing an error.

So, this helped:
i removed many packages with a "2" and searched package names on
packages.debian.org and looked, if they are GNOME2 already (e.g.
"gnome-system-monitor2" has become "gnome-system-monitor".
So i removed the "2ers" and replaced them with the new ones, so that
all was in sync.
This did it for me and i hope that helps!


-- 
greetings,

Timo

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