Well, I got my apt sources taken care of by, as you said, deleting my cd entries and then running apt-cdrom. Unfortunately I still can not get gnome removed. How would I be able to completely remove gnome and then reinstall? Does anyone know what packages have to go...so far by doing apt-get remove gnome-session and reinstalling it has not helped, and if I try an apt-get install gnome it gives me grief about broken packages. What I meant to say about the "no desktop" is that I run Gnome 2.2 with gnome-panel and sawfish, but I do not run nautilus on my desktop (ie icons on the desktop) but that is kinda irrelivant. for the record I am using gdm2 and that works fine.
On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 15:06, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, karrottop said: > > Yesterday I installed apt-spy and blew up my computer with it I am > > sure. I ran it and it messed up my sources.list file pretty bad so I > > restored the backup, then ran apt-get upgrade / apt-get dist-upgrade and > > it gave me a wierd error > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > W: Couldn't stat source package list cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r0 > > _Woody_ - > > Official i386 Binary-1 (20020718)] stable/main Packages > > >(/var/lib/apt/lists/Debian%20GNU_Linux%203.0%20r0%20%5fWoody%5f%20-%20Official%20i386%20Binary-1%20(20020718)_dists_stable_main_binary-i386_Packages) > - stat (2 No such file or directory) > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > I get this about all the cd's that I have for debian, and it tells me to > > run apt-get update to fix the problem (that is where I get the problem) > > You'll need to fix up your sources.list to either > a) not include references to the CD's, since you're no longer running > stable, or > b) `apt-cdrom add` each one back to your sources.list. It sounds like > something went wrong with them. > > > I just recently upgraded to unstable with apt (replacing all the > > instances of stable with unstable and gnome went to version 2.2, and > > worked great. Now for some reason when I log in I do not get the gnome > > panel anymore. It just gives me a blank scree, I do not use the desktop > > feature so I don't know if that works, instead I just get stuck having > > to kill my instance of gnome and use something like fluxbox or kde. Any > > ideas? Im out of them. > > The GNOME1 -> GNOME2 transition has been rather rocky, but it's finally > starting to calm down a bit. I'm not sure what you mean by the 'desktop > feature' - gdm or some other display manager? Write back and let us > know a few more things so e can help better: > > How are you logging in? If it's via gdm or some other display manager, > try picking a gnome session, rather than default. If it's through > startx, you'll need to specify something in .xsession > > Do you have the various parts of GNOME2 installed? Try apt-get install > gnome - it's a meta-package that should install all the necessary bits > for a gnome session to function. > > HTH, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]