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

[Travis Crump <pretzalz@techhouse.org>]

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


You should be able to grab most/all of these from 
snapshot.debian.net[pretty much just do a binary search to find the 
right date(s)].  Put them all in a directory and try 'dpkg -i *deb'.  If 
that doesn't work, run dpkg-scanpackages on the directory, create a 
Release file with origin equal to local, pin o=local to 1001, and add 
the directory to your sources.list, and then bang away at aptitude.

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