On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 14:38 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Greg Folkert on 14/07/05 20:29, wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-13 at 00:22 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > > >>Shall I just apt-get remove gnome and then apt-get install it again? > >> > >>Or does that way madness lie? > > > > > > Yes, madness awaits. But, more madness awaits trying to fix you gconf > > setup. > > > > I know, I completely rebuilt my gconf, everything under /etc/gconf/ > > > > I ended up completely removing and purging my machine of even X to fix > > the damn thing. I purged and manually removed *ANY* directories left > > over from the removal. > > > > Before you remove anything... make sure you get a good snapshot of > > everything installed. (dpkg --get-selections) > > > > And, also snap a list of everything to be removed. When you do an > > "apt-get remove --purge xserver-common" is a BIG depends for many > > things. It causes tons o stuff to be removed. Also those things > > secondarily force other things to be removed. > > > > Overall, I feel I am far better off doing the removal and purge, than I > > was with the hand fixing. Reason being, things that annoyed me for the > > last two years are now gone... replaced with stuff that works the way I > > knew it should. As it did on other machines, even they using the same > > Homedir off a server. > > > OK, I'm brave, I can do that but it would be good to hear other people's > points of view first though........ :) > > Due to time constraints and my inability to fix gconf, I am living with > the gnome desktop without a window manager. I find it only mildly > debilitating and due to the same time constraints, I would rather avoid > doing anything that will take hours of work. > > I am thinking of waiting until sid matures a bit and then doing a whole > system upgrade. If your machine is significantly fast enough and you have good bandwidth, it shouldn't take long at all. And waiting until Sid matures??? Wow, now that is a new one. Sid means Still In Developement or Unstable. Never will Mature, you'll be waiting... ummm. Forever?! -- greg, greg@gregfolkert.net For technology that is Strong, Better, Faster: Linux
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