Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-26 Thread dave mallery
On 25 Mar 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > happened to me. > > Do you have any packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/partial. I had a > problem with packages that would neither install nor could I purge them, > with apt not able to install anything. I worked on it for the better > part of the day to fix it

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread Dale Hair
> if i reboot, i get the loginbox -> flash flash -> loginbox routine. > so i shut gdm and startx. rebooting has not helped much this go-round. > without any gnome on the box, gdm can't do much. guess i'll insert an > exit 0 at the top of /etc/init.d/gdm. > > also, having purged everything gno

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
On 25 Mar 2002, Dale Hair wrote: > > > > > i shut down gdm and said "startx" > > > > lo and behold: up comes enlightenment . . no wonder they call it E! > > > > i'm gonna go ponder this for a while > > > > as always, > > > > thank you > > > This happened to me once, after a dist-upgrade I

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread Dale Hair
> > i shut down gdm and said "startx" > > lo and behold: up comes enlightenment . . no wonder they call it E! > > i'm gonna go ponder this for a while > > as always, > > thank you > This happened to me once, after a dist-upgrade I think. After running out of ideas I did the windows thing a

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
hi i poked at your script so it would just list 'em to see what it might do. there were only an amazing few ximians but i guess many of the gnomes came from ximian as well (if i remember the download correctly) ximian-doorman ximian-faq ximian-menus ximian-north ximian-south ximian-utils xi

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > dave mallery wrote: > > On Mon, 25 Mar 2002, Bryan W. Headley wrote: > > > > so getting them is not the problem, as they are there! > > That's why I use dselect over apt. None of the front-ends are up to > part. Neither is dselect, but I figured o

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
On 24 Mar 2002, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Are you still lost or have you cracked it? > still there... see my other post to bryan headley > Forgive me - I've cleared out the earlier posts! What exactly do you get > when you try to start X ? Do you have an .xinitrc or an .xsession file > in

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-25 Thread dave mallery
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

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-24 Thread Glyn Millington
dave mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 23 Mar 2002, Glyn Millington wrote: > > > > Just download the gnome-core deb > > > > then load it in with dpkg > > > > dpkg --force-overwrite -i gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb > > > after the above, still no gnome... no X, only the login box > >

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-24 Thread Peter Whysall
On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 19:34, dave mallery wrote: > gnome-core got good and stuck: > > apt-get install gnome-core > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 192 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/1440kB of archives. Aft

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
peter spake: > Does "apt-get install -f", then "apt-get install gnome-core" help? bilbo:/home/dmallery>> apt-get install -f Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 193 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully installed or re

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
On 23 Mar 2002, Glyn Millington wrote: > > Just download the gnome-core deb > > then load it in with dpkg > > dpkg --force-overwrite -i gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb ilbo:~>> dpkg --force-overwrite -i /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb (Reading database ... 56806 files and

still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread dave mallery
gnome-core got good and stuck: apt-get install gnome-core Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 192 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1440kB of archives. After unpacking 2396kB will be freed. (Reading database ... 56800

Re: still stuck and no gnome anymore

2002-03-23 Thread Glyn Millington
dave mallery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > gnome-core got good and stuck: > Unpacking replacement gnome-core ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/gnome-core_1.4.0.6-2_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/omf/gnome-core/fdl-C.omf', which is also > in package