[SOLVED] Can't restore Gnome default settings

finferflu · 2007-10-31 11:06:08

Hi,
I just wanted to try out the new Gnome 2.20, however when I try to start it up, I get a very very very messed up Desktop. I can't do almost anything. No icons (well, only stupid generic file icons for everything), no menus, can't open files. I have tried to remove all the gnome related and gnome apps related hidden folders in my home directory (I also ended up deleting my whole .config folder, just to be sure), but for the love of me, it doesn't affect my current *configuration*. I have never had such an odd problem, I'm posting a screenshot.

Could anybody give me any hint since I am quite confused?
Thanks a lot!

Last edited by finferflu (2007-10-31 14:32:39)

finferflu · 2007-10-31 11:35:38

I just found out, reading this thread, that I need to reinstall libx11, but I have libx11-xcb installed, for some reason, which conflicts with it. If I try to uninstall it, it obviously brings down quite a few apps... But the main thing is that uninstalling libx11-xcb hangs:

$ sudo pacman -Rcs libx11-xcb
checking dependencies... 
error: could not find xfce-utils in database -- skipping
error: could not find xfce-utils in database -- skipping
<and so on endlessly>

Last edited by finferflu (2007-10-31 11:41:07)

pressh · 2007-10-31 12:46:42

try this

pacman -S xfce-utils
pacman -Rcs libx11-xcb
pacman -Rcs xfce-utils
pacman -S libx11

finferflu · 2007-10-31 13:04:54

Hi, thanks for your reply.
Your method is working, but now it seems everything that relies on X will be removed, do you have any idea on how to restore everything back eventually? What I have done is copying all that is gonna be removed in a text file, then I would like to "cat" that list with yaourt (since there are packages from AUR as well). How would I go about doing that?

pressh · 2007-10-31 13:23:45

ah okay, then do something like

pacman -S xfce-utils
pacman -R --force --nodeps libx11-xcb
pacman -S libx11
pacman -Rcs xfce-utils

I guess now I should have the pacman switches correct (I'm not on my AL box atm you see)

Last edited by pressh (2007-10-31 13:26:13)

finferflu · 2007-10-31 14:14:08

Well, too late for me now... I guess I should have checked this before...
Anyway I have managed to reinstall everything, but now X won't start for Gnome. There is some shared object which can't be opened, but I can't scroll up enough to read what it is, nor I can find the actual log reporting this error. Where should I check?

Thanks!

Edit
Nevermind, I found out I had to install avahi

Last edited by finferflu (2007-10-31 14:32:12)

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[SOLVED] Can't restore Gnome default settings

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