Upgrade killed off Gnome and Xfce4 --- sorta solved

joepotter · 2006-10-04 10:01:18

The latest upgrade (Oct 3rd) caused Gnome to stop before fully loaded. Xfce would load, but apps would freeze and it was not usable.

So, I deleted the /etc/udev folder and re-installed hal and udev. I also did a "rm -rf .g*" in the user home. This caused gnome to start working again. I hope this ends the latest round of woes in "current".

I do not know if the udev action was needed, but I got warnings during the upgrade abut the udev config files being changed. since I had never modified them, I figured that a fresh install would cure any problems.

Does anyone have a guess as to what happened?

drakosha · 2006-10-17 07:00:02

It happened to me too: Gnome stops before fully loaded, xfce works correctly, some suggestions here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=201848#201848

drakosha · 2006-10-19 05:51:34

moving away the following directories:

.gnome  .gnome-commander  .gnome-desktop  .gnome2  .gnome2_private  .gnome_private

indeed solved the problem, and the only lost setting were launchers on the panels

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#1 2006-10-04 10:01:18

Upgrade killed off Gnome and Xfce4 --- sorta solved

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Re: Upgrade killed off Gnome and Xfce4 --- sorta solved

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Re: Upgrade killed off Gnome and Xfce4 --- sorta solved

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