On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, John C. Tull wrote:
> Is Gnome absolutely dead in 8.2 b1? I cannot successfully bring up a > gnome session from xdm login. Instead, my X-session seemingly restarts > itself (gray screen, black X after a moment of screen darkness, then xdm > again). KDE works fine. > Yes - there were some important libs missing, as well as a broken package. If you update from cooker, gnome is now working. > Similarly, gnumeric and some other gnome-based apps will not run from > within KDE. I checked my installed libs from the package manager > (Mandrake manager). Some of the gnome libs and ?.pixbuf.? were not > installed. On trying to install those from the CD's, the Mandrake > installer basically freezes the system while spinning the cd-rom almost > constantly. I had to hard reset because I could not bring up a virtual > terminal. > Not sure what's going on there. If the files are on the CD, and the ISO is OK, they should install. Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
