Thanks for the help last night Szemir! I was able to do a recovery boot and then apt-get install gnome-desktop. it didn't fix the icon issue, but it got gnome working again.
i'd like to upgrade to ubuntu 5.10 tonight and would value your advice. i'll be in #CLUG around 7 tonight. lemme know if that works! Mike -- http://mikeandrose.blogspot.com Linux User 394239 697D3 F03C9 455B5 98819 9A83A 10F5C 4A710 34A0A _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying

