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Re: Broken Gnome on upgrade



James Hosken wrote:
I've just run apt-get update && apt-get upgrade and it seams to have
broken gnome. When you login at the gdm it comes up with an error of

"Your prefered session type GDM_Failsafe. Gnome desktop is not installed
on this machine. Do you wish to make Failsafe Gnome the default?"

If you click through the menu, it loads a failsafe version of Gnome.
Gnome was working fine before I update and upgraded, so Gnome was
installed, unlike the error message said.

I've googled and not found any thing on this, I have also tried to
dpkg-reconfigure gnome, but that doesn't seam to do any think. Please
can some one help me out, this is really anoying me.

Does the following file exist /usr/share/xsessions/gnome.desktop ?
It should have the following contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=GNOME
Comment=This session logs you into GNOME
Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-session
# no icon yet, only the top three are currently used
Icon=
Type=Application


Cheers,

Jaap



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