Re: Dire straits with Gnome

[Mark Gordon <mtgordon ximian com>]

I'm not sure exactly what's going on, but I think the db2 package may
have gotten uninstalled.  You should be able to use Red Carpet to
reinstall it from the Red Hat channel.

-Mark Gordon

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 04:21, paul lewis wrote:
> Over the last few days I have successfully upgraded my Gnome desktop via
> ximian redcarpet. This seemed to go well - although I do not often shut
> down gnome. Yesterday I downloaded some updates for Redhat also via
> redcarpet. These included ssl stuff and rpm upgrades too. During the
> upgrade process it said something to the effect that it was removing a
> database of some sort. I took this to refer to the RPM database since.
> 
> Anyway since upgrading last night Gnome will not start. X is fine, the
> error message I get is..
> 
> gnome-session: error while loading shared libraries libdb.so.2 cannot
> open shared object file. No such file or directory.
> 
> Anyone know what has happened and what I can do to get my Gnome desktop
> back?
> 
> X does work since I can run other window managers.
> 
> Help
> 
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