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briancurtin

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From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-02-11

Posts: 132

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upgrade to gnome 2.14 - completely hosed.

i had no problems before, and tonight i ran pacman -Syu and it blew everything up. im not even looking for a solution, just reinstalling again. ive only been on this install for like 3 days and havent done much at all besides install a few common things like gaim, gimp, firefox, etc. when i came back after it downloaded and installed, the output showed that every *.so file involved in all of the upgraded files was supposedly empty and something or other. nothing works from the command line, X is toast, GDM spits out too much info to comprehend, and somewhere along the line nvidia drivers got lost and i dont even think they were any part of this equation.

im just hoping this doesnt happen to anyone else. im looking forward to 2.14, and ill be reinstalling from scratch some time tonight so hopefully it works good then.

johnisevil

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From: Hamilton, ON Canada

Registered: 2003-08-07

Posts: 221

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Re: upgrade to gnome 2.14 - completely hosed.

Weird.  The last time I installed Arch was over a year ago and I'm always surprised to hear about these kinds of problems as I've never experienced anything remotely as catastrophic.

Pablo_Escobar

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From: Poznan, Poland

Registered: 2005-12-20

Posts: 65

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Re: upgrade to gnome 2.14 - completely hosed.

Strange, yesterday I upgraded Gnome to 2.14 and it went without a flaw.
To be one safe side I upgraded from the console, killing X before that.
Man, the speed increse is significant, now my desktop really flies

Big THANK YOU to all the devs

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Blaasvis

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Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 467

Re: upgrade to gnome 2.14 - completely hosed.

was X running when you updated the nvidia driver ?
it doesn't like X running

try reinstall gnome and nvidia driver by

pacman -S nvidia
pacman -Rc gtk2 
pacman -S gnome gnome-extra

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