Gnome Disapeared from the boot menu
Guillermo Garron
guillermo.fedora at gmail.com
Thu Aug 31 13:13:05 UTC 2006
On 8/30/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> Guillermo Garron wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have just missed my Gnome from the boot menu, i only have KDE as option,
> >
> > any clues?
> > sorry i can not give you any more details, but i really don't know
> > where to start.
> >
> > Will i have to remove and reinstall all Gnome? hope not it will take
> > my lot of time on the internet :(
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Guillermo.
> >
>
> You can use 'switchdesk gnome' in a terminal as a regular user to switch
> the default desktop to gnome.
>
> Regarding the missing entry for gnome in the display manager, the
> problem most likely is within the display manager itself. There are
> three that I know of, xdm, gdm and kdm. I believe removing gdm will make
> kdm as the display manager.
>
> If gnome is messed up, running
> yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> might pull in the missing pieces.
>
> I tried it on my system and only gnome-screesaver and hal-gnome was
> pulled in. I canceled the upgrade request and just installed hal-gnome.
> The one package is intentional. The other does not have a bad reputation
> yet for me.
>
> Anyway, it will not reinstall already installed rpms, just the missing rpms.
>
> Jim
Thank you Jim
I think i have found the problem, yesterday i have installed and
deinstalled some programs (in order to make yum update faster) and i
think i messed up the whole think
look at this below (comes from my WatchLog)
Packages Installed:
ghostscript-fonts.noarch 5.50-13.1
evince.i386 0.5.1-3
libgnomeprint22.i386 2.12.1-4.2
cups.i386 1:1.2.2-1.8
eel2.i386 2.14.3-1.fc5
nautilus-cd-burner.i386 2.14.3-1.fc5
libgnomecups.i386 0.2.2-3.2.1
nautilus.i386 2.14.3-1.fc5
libgnomeprintui22.i386 2.12.1-1.2.1
ghostscript.i386 8.15.2-1.1
Packages Erased:
nautilus
nautilus-cd-burner
file-roller
control-center
gnome-applets
gnome-python2-gnomeprint
gtksourceview
system-config-printer-gui
gimp-print-utils
cups
gnome-volume-manager
xine
ltsp-utils
gimp-gap
gimp-print-plugin
system-config-printer
hal-cups-utils
gnome-utils
gimp-data-extras
ghostscript-fonts
hpijs
evolution-webcal
gedit
gnome-media
eel2
gimp-print
libgnomecups
gimp
evince
eel2-devel
libgnomeprintui22-devel
sound-juicer
gnome-session
librsvg2
libgnomeprint22
planner
enscript
librsvg2-devel
libgnomeprint22-devel
gnome-games
xine-lib
gtkhtml3
libgnomeprintui22
tftp-server
ImageMagick
a2ps
ghostscript
gimp-help
desktop-printing
totem
gnome-python2-gtksourceview
kphone
samba-client
gthumb
gdm
rhythmbox
redhat-lsb
yelp
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