Re: Fail to start Gnome desktop

[Stephen Liu <satimis icare com hk>]

Hi Wouter,

Thanks for response.

I copied and pasted your command to Konsole window and executed it as USER and 
then as ROOT as well.  I compared their printouts as found similar as 
follows;

~# echo `dpkg --get-selections |cut -f 1 |grep -E "(gnome|gtk|gconf)"`
freeciv-client-gtk gconf gconf2 gnome-bin gnome-core gnome-libs-data 
gnome-mime-data gnome-session gtkglarea5 libgconf-dev libgconf11 libgconf2-4 
libgconf2-dev libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libglade-gnome0 libgnome-desktop-2 
libgnome2-0 libgnome2-common libgnome32 libgnomecanvas2-0 
libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomeprint-bin libgnomeprint-data libgnomeprint15 
libgnomeprint2.2-0 libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprintui2.2-0 
libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomesupport0 libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common 
libgnomeui32 libgnomevfs2-0 libgnomevfs2-common libgnorbagtk0 libgsf-gnome-1 
libgtk1.2 libgtk1.2-common libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common libgtkhtml2-0 
libgtkhtml20 libgtkspell0 libgtkxmhtml1 libwxgtk2.4 python-gnome2 
python-gtk-1.2 python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gtk2
localhost:~# echo `dpkg --get-selections |cut -f 1 |grep -E "(gnome|gtk|
gconf)"`

I also compared the above printout with yours and found some packages missing.  
Shall I "apt-get install" those missing packages manually.

I found following URL

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-November/msg00021.html

The bug reported is similar to mine.  They have solution for RH but up to now 
I still could not find its solution to Debian (testing/unstable)

B.R.
Stephen




在 星期二 06 一月 2004 19:13，uws 寫道:
> P� Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 01:39:37AM +0800, Stephen Liu skrev:
> > 1) removed .gconf, .gconfd, .gnome, .gnome2 and .gnome2_private from
> > USER. Each time when I login GNOME they were re-created.  GNOME 2.4 logo
> > started and died immediately with following warning popup;
> >
> > ERROR
> > There was an error starting the GNOME_Settings Daemon
> >
> > 3) tried to re-install following packages
> > [snip]
>
> On my Debian Sarge/Sid box, I have the following gnome-related packages
>
> installed:
> | uto:~ > echo `dpkg --get-selections |cut -f 1 |grep -E
> | "(gnome|gtk|gconf)"` gconf-editor gconf2 glade-gnome-2 gnome-applets
> | gnome-bin gnome-common gnome-control-center gnome-core-devel
> | gnome-cups-manager gnome-desktop-data gnome-doc-tools gnome-extra-icons
> | gnome-games gnome-gv gnome-icon-theme gnome-libs-data gnome-mime-data
> | gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-spell
> | gnome-system-monitor gnome-terminal gnome-themes
> | gnome-themes-common gnome-utils gnome2-user-guide gtk-doc-tools
> | gtk-theme-switch gtk2-engines-crux gtk2-engines-lighthouseblue
> | gtk2-engines-pixbuf gtk2-engines-redmond95 gtk2-engines-thinice
> | gtkfontsel gtkhtml3.0 libgconf2-4 libgconf2-dev libgnome-desktop-2
> | libgnome-desktop-dev libgnome-dev libgnome-pilot2 libgnome2-0
> | libgnome2-common libgnome2-dev libgnome32 libgnomecanvas2-0
> | libgnomecanvas2-common libgnomecanvas2-dev libgnomecups1.0-1
> | libgnomecupsui1.0-1 libgnomedb2-3 libgnomedb2-common libgnomeprint2.2-0
> | libgnomeprint2.2-data libgnomeprint2.2-dev
> | libgnomeprintui2.2-0 libgnomeprintui2.2-common libgnomesupport0
> | libgnomeui-0 libgnomeui-common libgnomeui-dev libgnomeui32 libgnomevfs2-0
> | libgnomevfs2-common libgnomevfs2-dev libgnorbagtk0 libgtk-perl libgtk1.2
> | libgtk1.2-common libgtk1.2-dev libgtk2-perl libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-common
> | libgtk2.0-dev libgtkhtml2-0 libgtkhtml3.0-2 libgtksourceview-common
> | libgtksourceview-dev libgtksourceview1.0-0 libgtkspell-dev libgtkspell0
> | ooqstart-gnome openoffice.org-gnome python-gnome2 python-gtk2
> | python2.3-gnome2 python2.3-gtk2 rep-gtk vim-gnome
>
> Sorry for the long list.
>
>   mvrgr, Wouter