TODD WITTER wrote:
>
> Okay.
> I used apt-get update and apt-get dist-upgrade to upgrade from rain
> to hail via cdrom. What have I done? Sawfish just brings up
> errors. I deleted the .gnome files from my home file but it doesn't
> work. When logged in as root, I don't even get gnome but rather
> enlightenment with no file manager (and I can't find it anywhere -- I
> do have access to kdm but without a panel of any sort).
> When I look through the log of what's been done to my system, I
> see that a large number of libs and packages were never installed
> due to a number of dependency conflicts and configuration errors.
> While some were being installed I often saw something like:
> warning: can't find /usr/lib/libslang.so (not a directory or file doesn't
> exist)... skipping.
> That one came up ALOT!
> What is it?
> I know, all so vague... this is more a rant/question. :) When I settle
> down a bit I will take care to write down all the errors I can find to
> be more specific. It just seems apt-get didn't really get much done
> in terms of upgrading.
> Anyway, rain always worked well and I thought hail would be a nice
> improvement but I seem to have really confused the poor dear.
> Also, since I am still a newbie, I was wondering with the apt-get
> upgrade and apt-get dist-upgrade, was the kernel touched at all?
> Since hail is 2.2.16 and rain is 2.2.14 (I believe).
> Oh so many questions... so little time. :)
> Thanks for anyone willing to respond to my rare rant. I'm usually
> alot more composed. :) Later!
>
HI
The kernl should've been touched.you may check with
uname -a
Now for the errors I would suggest 2 approaches;
First waht I would suggest is run with the CDROM in
apt-get update dselect
This is very important
Now to the fixing ideas:
apt-get check
and see what errors do you get
try
apt-get -f install
dpkg --configure --pending
also check for errors
What can I say,I broke my system countless times when i was running
unstable so the only reliable appproach if one is to find the first
error,manually install the missing package with
dpkg --force-depends -i packagename
dpkg --force-help is your friend here
,ususally you can find the needed package in /var/cache/apt/archives
then run again
dpkg --configure-pending
dselect
choose option 3 Install
repeat steps with the next package that gives an error,try purging
the package and reinstalling it
dpkg --purge packagename
As for the x part I use gdm instead of kdm and works fine.Did yuo try to
choose the session type in kdm.gdm for one have this annoying feature
of defaulting to the last session so you have to tell it to run kde or
gnome session.
Well good luck
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