Steven, Thanks!!!! Installing gnome-shell and gnome-shell-common from unstable worked!!!!
Mark On Jul 2, 2013 8:14 AM, "Steven Post" <redalert.comman...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 07:59 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > > I have been running Debian testing on my laptop for several years. I > > performed a "routine" update/upgrade on Sunday, and I seem to have > > lost gnome. At first, I could not log in, but I got that fixed. > > However, when I log in, all I get is my wallpaper. No favorites on the > > left, no window docks (not sure of the terminology here) on the right, > > no taskbar at the top, etc. Just a wall paper. I also get an error > > message "No system tray detected, unable to start". However, I traced > > that back to an hp printer service, so I don't think it is relevant. > > > > I have tried uninstalling/installing gnome, but no change. I tried > > creating an new user and logging in with that user, and I get the same > > situation - but the default wall paper and not my personal one. I have > > run several update/upgrade and update/dist-upgrades since Sunday, and > > no change. I have looked through the 'net to find solutions, and I am > > not getting anywhere. > > > [...] > > Multiple people seem to have this issue, including me. The problem is > solved in gnome-shell from unstable, you can either wait until it > migrates to testing (in 1 or 2 days I guess, judging from the QA page > [1]) or you can install from unstable with "aptitude install -t unstable > gnome-shell" (no quotes). Make sure you have unstable in your > sources.list file. Just be careful not to upgrade your whole system to > unstable, but only that package. > > Regards, > Steven >
