You could try re-installing gnome then remove gnome-session and gnome-control-center, that should pretty much put a stake through it's bloated little green heart, even if it doesn't remove all of the body parts.
As far as your comment about downgrading to testing...can you do that? I mean, I know you can tell it to focus on testing but its going to be a while and hard to tell when that actually happens. I think you are going to have to wait till testing passes unstable on every package, which conceivably might not happen till Sarge goes stable, though most of it should within a few months. On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 00:12, Katipo wrote: > Martin J. Hillyer wrote: > > >After a small fling with Gnome, and trying to remove it, I'm having > >trouble getting my system updated. I've been flailing around a fair > >bit, so a reinstall may be my only option at this point. But perhaps > >someone here could show me a way to avoid that. I was running > >unstable, and got this problem; downgrading to testing didn't make the > >problem go away. > > > >The problem seems to be with nautilus-media, debconf, or perl, or all > >three - I'm not sure. Here's what I see: > > > >$ dpkg -C > >The following packages are in a mess due to serious problems during > >installation. They must be reinstalled for them (and any packages > >that depend on them) to function properly: > > nautilus-media Multimedia goodies for Nautilus > > > >The following packages are only half configured, probably due to problems > >configuring them the first time. The configuration should be retried using > >dpkg --configure <package> or the configure menu option in dselect: > > debconf Debian configuration management system > > > > > > > ># dpkg --configure -a > >Setting up debconf (1.4.17) ... > >Unquoted string "functions" may clash with future reserved word at > >/usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Noninteractive.pm line 1. > >syntax error at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Noninteractive.pm line 1, near > >"}{" > >Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 11. > >BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/ConfModule.pm line 11. > >Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/AutoSelect.pm line 6. > >BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/AutoSelect.pm line 6. > >Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. > >BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/debconf/frontend line 6. > >dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure): > > subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9 > >Errors were encountered while processing: > > debconf > > > > > >I get the same error messages about 'Unquoted string "functions" may > >clash...' when trying to upgrade or reinstall nautilus-media. And > >these errors seem to cause no package to be upgraded. > > > >Can someone point me in the right direction, or is my system so hosed > >at this point that a reinstall is in order (it would be a first)? > > > > > > > Hello Martin, > > Looks as though we are in the same boat, so lets get something going here. > I'm in the process of stripping down Gnome 2.4, and it is a minefield of > interdependencies. > I know that nautilus-media and the nautilus package are dependent, so if > you install the package nautilus that may help with nautilus-media. > I've purged both nautilus and nautilus-media so far, If I need that type > of file manager, gmc will do it, and there are better multimedia > packages than nautilus-media. > > The only other thing that I have been able to glean so far, as I've just > started, is the gnome dependency on libgnome2-perl. > > For the rest, the impression is the problem is with debconf, from the > downgrade. > Have you tried a reinstall of debconf testing? > Regards, > > David. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]