Re: Gnome2 / Apt messed up
Well, I got my apt sources taken care of by, as you said, deleting my cd
entries and then running apt-cdrom. Unfortunately I still can not get
gnome removed. How would I be able to completely remove gnome and then
reinstall? Does anyone know what packages have to go...so far by doing
apt-get remove gnome-session and reinstalling it has not helped, and if
I try an apt-get install gnome it gives me grief about broken packages.
What I meant to say about the "no desktop" is that I run Gnome 2.2 with
gnome-panel and sawfish, but I do not run nautilus on my desktop (ie
icons on the desktop) but that is kinda irrelivant. for the record I am
using gdm2 and that works fine.
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 15:06, Stephen Gran wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, karrottop said:
> > Yesterday I installed apt-spy and blew up my computer with it I am
> > sure. I ran it and it messed up my sources.list file pretty bad so I
> > restored the backup, then ran apt-get upgrade / apt-get dist-upgrade and
> > it gave me a wierd error
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0
> > _Woody_ -
> > Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)] stable/main Packages
> > (/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.0%20r0%20%5fWoody%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-1%20(20020718)_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > I get this about all the cd's that I have for debian, and it tells me to
> > run apt-get update to fix the problem (that is where I get the problem)
>
> You'll need to fix up your sources.list to either
> a) not include references to the CD's, since you're no longer running
> stable, or
> b) `apt-cdrom add` each one back to your sources.list. It sounds like
> something went wrong with them.
>
> > I just recently upgraded to unstable with apt (replacing all the
> > instances of stable with unstable and gnome went to version 2.2, and
> > worked great. Now for some reason when I log in I do not get the gnome
> > panel anymore. It just gives me a blank scree, I do not use the desktop
> > feature so I don't know if that works, instead I just get stuck having
> > to kill my instance of gnome and use something like fluxbox or kde. Any
> > ideas? Im out of them.
>
> The GNOME1 -> GNOME2 transition has been rather rocky, but it's finally
> starting to calm down a bit. I'm not sure what you mean by the 'desktop
> feature' - gdm or some other display manager? Write back and let us
> know a few more things so e can help better:
>
> How are you logging in? If it's via gdm or some other display manager,
> try picking a gnome session, rather than default. If it's through
> startx, you'll need to specify something in .xsession
>
> Do you have the various parts of GNOME2 installed? Try apt-get install
> gnome - it's a meta-package that should install all the necessary bits
> for a gnome session to function.
>
> HTH,
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