Re: new gnome2 in sarge : startup error
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:43:39PM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote:
> just updated to gnome2 in sarge with an:
> apt-get update
> apt-get distupgrade
>
> worked like a charm, till a logout / login
>
> gdm tried to login my id and something failed and send me back to gdm.
> nothing in the log files. same result from startx from the cmd line.
>
> deleted ~/.xinitrc and startx from the command line worked
> deleted ~/.gnome2* and login from gdm worked
>
> one item left... on login a gnome error msg box comes up.
> - there was an error starting the gnome settings daemon
>
> any thoughts on resolving this? did the upgrade go smooth for anyone?
I'm running sarge and got exactly the same error when updating this
weekend. It's apparently because the Gnome 2 control center is not
in testing yet.
(I inferred that from
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/34593, found through
Googling.)
Sure would be nice if Gnome were upgraded a little more coherently ;)
Mark Garland
Gainesville, Florida
U.S.A.
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