* Anders Johansson (andjoh@cicada.linux-site.net) [020526 22:00]: ::On Monday 27 May 2002 06.51, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ::> Well, how come when I uninstall all the Ximian stuff and remove the ::> Gnome directories and shared files..Gnome software will still puke on ::> itself and not give a valid reason like " error in directory <blah> with ::> config <blah>." ::> ::> This is the one thing about PC's that make this crap such a pain. One of ::> things I wish developers would do is make error messages that one can ::> understand. ::> ::> I got rid of Ximian completely and installed the SuSE RPM's and deleted ::> all the config files. I let it restart itself and I get the same error. ::> This is just goofy. :: ::I'm not saying Ximian is great, I gave up on that POC when I got circular, ::unresolvable (short of manually tampering with the rpm db) dependencies. ::And I also have no clue as to what your problem is, I don't use gnome myself. ::KDE (or afterstep, if I'm on an older comp) is better AFAIAC. :: ::I was just replying to dep and his conspiracy theories. I don't think that the ::problems you're seeing are in any way connected with any forking of the linux ::distributions. You're seeing a bug, not the death of linux. :: ::That's all I meant :) Well, Richard posted a fix link earlier that ended up actually working for me. It seems that Ximian (the dumbass's that they are) put a lot of config files for oaf in /usr/share and a lot of binaries in /usr/bin even though they KNOW SuSE uses /opt. Well, as soon as I spent about an hour rooting through /usr/share and deleting anything remotely related to a Gnome program and I ran their little oafd-config tool. It all started working again. At least I can copy my stuff out of Evolution into JPilot. I've used Mutt for a couple years so there is no way I would trust Evolution with my email. I trusted it with my PIM data and almost got burned. :/ So now everything accept Galeon works..and I know why as far as that's concerned..it's because I'm using nightly build of gnome instead of 1.0rc2 which is what SuSE compiled it against. No great loss anyway. I ONLY use Mozilla. The rest .. even Konq seem to half baked. Anyway.. it's all good. I know what you meant. -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. -GC --=====-----=====--