[K12OSN] reinstalling gnome after server upgrade

[Peter Scheie]

IIRC, I had a 4.x server with a separate /home partition.  I installed 5.0 on a separate 
server, and just mounted /home from the 4.x box.  It didn't go well.  Something with 
Gnome and its various hidden files in ~/ didn't work well under the 5.0 box; I think I 
got things like missing icons, missing menu items, erratic behavior, etc.  I ended up 
just moving user files from the old server to the new, exploiting tar's tendency to 
ignore hidden dot files, e.g., .gnome.

Petre

cisna-barry at wc235.k12.il.us wrote:
> hello All,
> 
>   Has anyone attempted to reinstall gnome? After upgrading from an K12LTSP
> 4.4.1 to 5.0 server the gnome enviornment is hosed. I should have done a
> fresh install,,I know. When logging into Gnome I get about 3-4 errors. "
> gnome settings daemon could not start", followed by about 3
> bonobo-activation server errors. Even the console login is scrambled a
> bit :( the login box is there , but,  the text is scrambled on it.I can
> log into KDE & Icewm fine ( at a terminal)which is strange?Trying to
> login into the console I get the same errors as seen at a terminal Gnome
> login. Ive found the possible fix being
>  ' /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon --sync ' but when running this I
> simply get a return of " Segmentaion fault" . I'm wondering if possibly
> the RAID drive(S) may be scrambled? I dont think so beings KDE & Icewm
> works alright?
> 
> Any Ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Barry Cisna
> 
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