Hmmm...please excuse my stupidity. It seems I uninstalled gnome without even realising. I simply reinstalled that package using synaptic and all is running finen again now (except for a few lost gnome applets).
I have no idea why this happened, but it serves me right for not reading what synaptic is telling me. Whytey On 5/13/05, David Whyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Remembering that I am a relative linux noob, I was kinda looking for > some help. I did an upgrade from 0.17 to 0.18 last night using > synaptic and found that myth itself was running fine afterwards. For > the upgrade to complete, a whole 39 packages were > upgraded/downloaded/removed or installed. > > I started my backend box up tonight (I shut it down as I went to bed > lat night :\) and although everything seemed to boot up fine and I get > the normal FC2 login screen, when I do a login, I get an Xterm session > that looks identical to when I use VNC. Just a terminal window and a > crappy menu thin when I click the desktop. I can start other apps > like gVIM and Mozilla, but it looks crap. > > When I log out, I go back to the FC2 login screen and I can select the > session I want, but the only options I get are 'Default System > Session' which is Xterm or 'Failsafe Terminal'. I have checked > boot.log and Xorg.log but there is nothing obvious. Anybody have a > clue whatelse I need to do to reenable metacity/Gnome??? > > The only error I got when I did the upgrade was as follows, but I just > ignored it... > > While installing package mythtv-suite-0.18-52.at: > > /sbin/ldconfig: relative path `0' used to build cache > error: %postun(rhythmbox-0.8.3-3.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 > warning: /etc/lisarc saved as /etc/lisarc.rpmsave > > Thanks for any help, > Whytey - crying like a baby at his broken box :( > -- > -- > GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH > > I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. > -- -- GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH I have GMail invites, if you want one, email me direct. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
