I had dist-upgrade problems with Ubuntu in the past. I only do clean
installs these days. The new Ubuntu 9.04 has been the smoothest install and
configuring I've had. I tried Kubuntu, and I still think KDE 4.2 needs work.
I'll happier with Gnome and Xfce.
John, do a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, David Kaplan wrote:
I had dist-upgrade problems with Ubuntu in the past. I only do clean
installs these days. The new Ubuntu 9.04 has been the smoothest install
and configuring I've had. I tried Kubuntu, and I still think KDE 4.2 needs
work. I'll happier with Gnome and
I presuming you really meant upgrade. As opposed tor fresh install. My
advice: don't upgrade. Install fresh . I have had problems upgrading to
Hardy and Intrepid. Once I installed a fresh system, 95% of therm
vanished.
The only problems I have had so far with a fresh Jaunty install were
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Nye Walker wrote:
Safety. Many linux users customize their software, tweak their configs,
and like things that way. From what I've seen a linux upgrade doesn't
wipe out much, thus leaves conflicting services and configurations.
Nye,
This is a people problem that has a
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 06:01 -0700, Rich Shepard wrote:
Each time I read this I ask why it should be necessary to
scrape off all the old paint before putting on a new coat.
It seems to me that the distribution creators should know how to clean up
and remove conflicting packages during the
MJang wrote:
One thing I do to deal with the upgrade cycle is have a separate
partition for my /home directory.
Oh, yes. In fact, the old-timers on this list will remember the early
days of Unix, you know, when they had manuals and one was required to
read them, that multiple filesystems
John Jason Jordan wrote:
Don't.
OK, I have never used KDE before. But I am now poking at it because it's all I
can get working. Maybe y'all KDE dudes and dudettes can convince me to keep
it. If Gnome won't run, to hell with it, eh?
Meantime, the dist-upgrade to Jaunty is a pile of
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 22:19:11 -0700
John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo:
I am sending this from a KDE desktop, because my Gnome desktop won't start. I
get my desktop background, but no Gnome panel. Kind of hard to run
applications when you have no panel. And Alt-F2 fails to launch a
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 09:58, Michael mich...@jamhome.us wrote:
John Jason Jordan wrote:
Don't.
OK, I have never used KDE before. But I am now poking at it because it's all
I
can get working. Maybe y'all KDE dudes and dudettes can convince me to keep
it. If Gnome won't run, to hell with
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
I still can't get Gnome to run properly. Actually, it comes up fine and my
custom screen background looks the same as it did before. It's just the
panel that is missing. And Alt-F2 won't open a terminal. However, I can
get to the command line with
John Jason Jordan wrote:
Does anyone know any other secret way to get a terminal window open
besides Alt-F2?
Try right clicking while the cursor is on the root window. With gnome
under CentOS 5.3, that brings up a menu, and one of the menu items is
'Open Terminal'. If that doesn't work,
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Does anyone know any other secret way to get a terminal window open
besides Alt-F2?
Can you restart the panel manually? Does a right-click on the root window
bring up a menu from which you can open a terminal? I don't know Gnome, but
this brings
give up on gnome-terminal and use xterm. it's not as fancy, but doesnt
rely on all the rest of gnome running. obviously you have some startup
problem, so you might want to check your x logs (not sure exactly where
ubuntu puts them).
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 15:12, Joe Pruett j...@clean.q7.com wrote:
give up on gnome-terminal and use xterm. it's not as fancy, but doesnt
rely on all the rest of gnome running. obviously you have some startup
problem, so you might want to check your x logs (not sure exactly where
ubuntu puts
John Jason Jordan wrote:
And to those who suggested right-clicking on the root window, bear in
mind that there are no windows on the display at all, root or
otherwise. It's just a completely blank screen showing my wallpaper. I
did try right-clicking and other clickety things, but nada. The
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:12:37 -0700 (PDT)
Joe Pruett j...@clean.q7.com dijo:
give up on gnome-terminal and use xterm. it's not as fancy, but doesnt
rely on all the rest of gnome running. obviously you have some startup
problem, so you might want to check your x logs (not sure exactly where
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, John Jason Jordan wrote:
Failed to get the session bus: dbus-launch failed autolaunch D-BUS
Uh-oh! You missed de bus.
And to those who suggested right-clicking on the root window, bear in mind
that there are no windows on the display at all, root or otherwise. It's
I wonder if your jjj user is missing the gnome panel applet in the
startup thing for gnome. Now that you have the panel you can look at
applications that are set to start up when the user logs in. Also
blowing away the old .gnome and .gnome2 directories in jjj's home
directory might yield more
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