On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 02:21 -0500, Moby wrote:
A further update to my SuSE 10 Gnome breaking after doing an apt-update and letting it update openoffice today.
I have tried the following to no avail:
1) rpm -ev all the openoffice rpms. No joy.
2) Deleted all $HOME/gconf, $HOME/gconfd, $HOME/gnome, $HOME/gnome2, $HOME/gnome2-private, and $HOME/gtk* directories. No joy.
3) Set ftp://ftp4.gwdg.de/... as my install source in Yast, went to manage software, searched for "gnome", selected everything that already showed as being installed and chose to install it again. No joy.
4) Created a new test account and tested with that. No joy.
At this point I am completely clueless. The two things that I can think of are (1) The apt openoffice update changed files belonging to some RPM that I have not installed. I have no idea which nor how to find out what it could be. (2) Even reinstalling RPMs is not updated some configuration file which continues to contain some type of bad data.
Every time I go into the GUI, I see a blank screen. I can launch an xterm and manually try launching gnome-session. After spitting out some material which makes no sense to me, it then slowly continues to repeat "Initializing nautilus-open-terminal".
I am not completely naive when it comes to PCs, as I hope my steps above show. At this point I have no clue how to set about fixing this problem other than (1) Try booting from source DVD and choose upgrade system again or (2) wipe the thing clean and reinstall. Both options incur a huge cost of time and energy and option (2) is the least palatable.
I am also bothered by the fact that if somewhat PC literate people like me can run into issues like this with Gnome which are so difficult to troubleshoot, how will your average home user ever survive with a SuSE desktop home machine running SuSE? I had moved all my daily operations to this SuSE desktop as of version 9.1. Gaim, OpenOffice, FireFox, and Thunderbird on SuSE ruled the day. Now I am completely down and wondering how bad an idea it would be to throw it out the window and put WinBlows on it.
My experience with Gnome internals is limited. I use RedHat and SuSE fine in a server only capacity, with cyrus, sendmail. bind, apache with no issues. However, Gnome issues still seem to eat my lunches and dinners!
Thank you for bearing with me and any help or ideas anyone has.
You could use something like the following to see what has been changed most recently: rpm -qa --queryformat '%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{INSTALLTIME:date}\t%{NAME}\n' | sort -g | cut -f 2- That way you can undo the most recent changes. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998