Re: Broken Gnome on upgrade
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Jaap Haitsma wrote:
| 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
|
Excellent!
The file wasn't there along with the directory.
Just added the lines to a new file and it worked.
Thanks! :-)
James
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James Hosken
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