FC5 to FC6 respin brings up TWM

Philip Walden pwaldenlinux at pacbell.net
Wed Feb 21 06:34:53 UTC 2007


Philip Walden wrote:
> Philip Walden wrote:
>> I just upgraded to FC6 re-spin from FC5.
>>
>> And lo my system comes up in yucky TWM. No nice gnome FC6 wallpaper 
>> or anything.
>>
>> How do I get this thing back to gnome?
> My /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients file is dated Nov 11
>
> Following the logic
>
> GSESSION="$(which gnome-session 2>/dev/null)"
>
> returns a blank GSESSION, there is no gnome-session anywhere. The 
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop is set to GNOME, so the script does a failsafe 
> to twm.
>
> Did the FC6 upgrade mess up? Can I just yum install gnome-session?
Well "yum install gnome-session" brought in gnome volume manager, gphoto 
and gnome-session.

I now have the familiar gnome environment up.

I wonder what else is missing?

This is the first time a Fedora upgrade has screwed up on me.




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