dist-upgrade killed my gnome

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Mon May 3 04:44:22 UTC 2004


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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