On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, Bryan W. Headley wrote:
hi brian
first let me say that i spent a long time yesterday going round and round
with dselect... all but three packages are now installed and configured.
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of abiword-gtk:
abiword-gtk depends on abiword-common; however:
Package abiword-common is not installed.
dpkg: error processing abiword-gtk (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of libgwrapguile-dev:
libgwrapguile-dev depends on libgwrapguile1 (= 1.1.11-5); however:
Package libgwrapguile1 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing libgwrapguile-dev (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up libpspell-ispell1 (0.12-4) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libpspell-ispell1.postinst: pspell-config: command not
found
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libpspell-ispell1.postinst: ./make-ispell-pwli: No such
file or directory
dpkg: error processing libpspell-ispell1 (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
abiword-gtk
libgwrapguile-dev
libpspell-ispell1
i must have been around the install loop a dozen times.
that finally cleared out the previously long list of uninstalled packages.
>
> Little parade...
arn't perceptions interesting?
>
> Okay, let's look at your /etc/alternatives directory.
>
> ls -l x-*
>
> Mine reads,
>
> [cut] x-session-manager -> /usr/bin/gnome-session
> [cut] x-window-manager -> /usr/bin/sawfish
>
> [cut] means I didn't paste it over. I'm only concerned with
> x-session-manager and x-window-manager. Actually, I'm less concerned
> with x-window-manager, because you might have "enlightenment" or
> "metacity" or one of the 'x'Step window managers. I don't care; is
> "gnome-session" your x-session-manager?
>
bilbo:/etc/alternatives>> ll x-* | less
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Mar 24 11:32 x-session-manager
-> /usr/bin/gnome-session*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 24 11:33 x-window-manager
-> /usr/bin/sawfish*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 32 Mar 15 14:42
x-window-manager.1.gz -> /usr/X11R6/man/man1/wmaker.1x.gz
(END)
>
> Now, let's go to /etc/X11. Do,
>
> cat default-display-manager
bilbo:/etc/X11>> cat default-display-manager
/usr/bin/gdm
>
> Mine sez,
>
> /usr/bin/gdm
>
> yours? If not, become root, bring up vi, emacs, or whatever, and fix.
>
> BTW, did you get the rest of the gnome packages to install via dselect?
> All unpacked, installed, configured? Are you sure? Let's find out. Bring
> up dselect, just choose option 3, and see if it configures/installs
> anything. If it does, that's actually a good sign. Means it left stuff
> unconfigured after it figured out gnome-core was bad.
>
> Now, are any of the ximian gnome packages still out there?
>
> (you are still root)
> cd /var/lib/dpkg/info
> ls *ximian*
ximian-doorman.list ximian-faq.prerm ximian-north.postinst
ximian-utils.md5sums
ximian-doorman.md5sums ximian-menus.list ximian-north.prerm
ximian-utils.postinst
ximian-doorman.postinst ximian-menus.md5sums ximian-south.list
ximian-utils.prerm
ximian-doorman.prerm ximian-menus.postinst ximian-south.md5sums
ximian-wallpapers.list
ximian-faq.list ximian-menus.prerm ximian-south.postinst
ximian-wallpapers.md5sums
ximian-faq.md5sums ximian-north.list ximian-south.prerm
ximian-wallpapers.postinst
ximian-faq.postinst ximian-north.md5sums ximian-utils.list
ximian-wallpapers.prerm
>
> Anybody? Because I get the impression that you are trying to overwrite
> all the ximian stuffage, right? If so, and some are still there, whew!
> Removal is called for. I'm hoping re-running dselect fixed your wagon,
> because this is surgery. I'm not giving you the knife without seeing the
> patient first.
i am not clear. i was hoping for a ximian-gnome desktop.
>
> Let's bring gnome up the "right" way after all this hackery.
>
> (you are still root)
> cd /etc/init.d
> ./gdm stop; exec ./gdm start
>
> (stand back. Gnome login panel & X Server should appear)
this is interesting.
when i do that on the actual machine, it sez:
Stopping GNOME Display Manager: gdm.
Starting GNOME Display Manager: gdm.
and then gives me a console login (no X)
if i do it from ssh (got two machines side by each)
then it puts the gdm login box on the target machine, but that just
continues as usual: box -> login -> flash -> box.....
i no longer get the "starting gnome" box (the one with the parade)
>
> Advise if patient requires further hackery :-)
>
>
i am sure that this machine is just a little messed up. none of the three
packages have anything to do with running x... i am not sure about
gnome-session. i remember seeing deselect complain about it in the past.
thanks so much
dave
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