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Re: apt-get dist-upgrade, now gnome session fails to login



Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org> wrote:

Marc Shapiro wrote:

Can anyone tell me how I can get back to any version of a working gnome session? Gnome1.4 worked fine for me and I would not object to going back to it if someone can tell me just what needs to be downgraded, uninstalled, etc. I just want a working system.

Marc Shapiro



I run testing and Gnome 1.4[and my system is in pretty good shape] and the following are the versions of relavent packages not in sync with the official archive["apt-show-versions | grep -v 'testing uptodate'" and then I manually weeded out packages I track from unstable[mplayer et al, mozilla, wine] and unavailable packages that I don't think are necessary for a working system[ie marbles, nparted...]:

abiword-common/unstable upgradeable from 1.9.0+cvs.2003.05.10-1 to 1.99.2+cvs.2003.07.10-1 abiword/unstable upgradeable from 1.9.0+cvs.2003.05.10-1 to 1.99.2+cvs.2003.07.10-1
gnome-applets/testing upgradeable from 1.4.0.5-4 to 2.2.2-1
gnome-audio/testing upgradeable from 1.4.0-5 to 2.0.0-1
gnome-panel-data/testing upgradeable from 1.4.2-1 to 2.2.2-1
gnome-panel/testing upgradeable from 1.4.2-1 to 2.2.2-1
gnome-session/testing upgradeable from 1.4.2-1 to 2.2.2-2
gnome-terminal/unstable upgradeable from 1.4.0.6-5 to 2.2.2-2
gnome-users-guide 1.4.1.1-2 installed: No available version in archive
gnome-utils/testing upgradeable from 1.4.1.2-4 to 2.2.1-1
gnucash/unstable upgradeable from 1.6.6-1 to 1.8.4-2
gnumeric/unstable upgradeable from 1.0.9-1u1 to 1.1.19-1
kdelibs3-bin 4:2.2.2-13.woody.5 newer than version in archive
libgal19 0.19.3-2.1 installed: No available version in archive
libgwrapguile1/testing upgradeable from 1.1.11-5 to 1.3.4-8
libmagick5.5.7/unstable upgradeable from 4:5.5.7.1-2 to 4:5.5.7.9-1
python-apt/testing upgradeable from 0.5.4.4 to 0.5.5.1
xpenguins-applet/testing upgradeable from 1.0-8 to 2.1.0-2

On my system some of the above files matched the version numbers given. For the others, I downgraded to 'stable'. I have also downgraded a few others, such as gdm, to 'stable'. I still get the same error message. Do I need to wipe my entire system and re-install from the CD-ROM? That sounds too much like MicroSquish to me.

Marc



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