dist-upgrade killed my gnome

[Kevin]

I have the same symptom on my box. Since yesterday I am unable to access
Gnome (not even as root), though KDE works fine. Any ideas from the
experts?

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 01:44, Chadley Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 17:19, Michael G Thomas wrote:
> > After doing the following manual dist-upgrade to fedora1 on April 30: 
> > ["apt-get install abiword arts arts-devel automake cdda2wav cdrecord 
> > cdrecord-devel fedora-logos ghostscript ghostscript-devel gtk+ 
> > gtk+-devel gtk2 gtk2-devel kdebase kdeedu kdegraphics kdelibs 
> > kdemultimedia kdenetwork kdeutils libmusicbrainz libmusicbrainz-devel 
> > libpostproc libpostproc-devel libwpd libwpd-devel libwpd-tools mkisofs 
> > mplayer openoffice.org openoffice.org-i18n openoffice.org-libs pcre 
> > pcre-devel qt qt-MySQL qt-ODBC qt-PostgreSQL qt-designer qt-devel 
> > redhat-artwork redhat-menus thinkeramik trm libgnomecups 
> > libmusicbrainz20 wv -y"] I am unable to start gnome as user or root.
> >   I tried running gnome apps from xfce but they segfault? Anyone else 
> > see this? Any ideas? This is something gnome-specific because kde runs 
> > fine as does xfce
> 
> Hi Michael,
> Not really an answer here, But I must comment,
> I had the same problem using synaptic. where it actually un-installed
> gnome to satisfy deps and never put it back! I did post about it a while
> ago. 
> 
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