Pedro It worked for another user. After a reboot, everything looks fine. I did not mention that all my desktop icons lso went missing and the right-click on desktop was not working or showing a menu.
I guess meta-gnome is the natural choice for anything broken with gnome, when you don't know which package is the problem. sorry about that. The reason I opened a bug report and not mailed the forum was because I want to emphasize that such things should never happen *especially when a user has not tinkered with any settings*. Imagine this for a corporate desktop when you login to do some critical urgent work and all your icons and desktop links dissappear. The Issue is not about if there was a workaround that resolves the matter by asking a few questions on the forum (that may involve hours to research for an unfamiliar user, or being forced to reboot) . A user should never have to encounter such a basic problem. I think most people will appreciate it if no matter what is broken, the desktop and basic functions always work. I run Ubuntu 8.0.4 Gnome 2.22.3. Thanks for your time, and I hope something can be done about this. PS: What is the correct package for this? I mean which of the 100+ packages do I start researching to locate where the fault lies? (mind you I was a www.linuxfromscratch.org user in 2003-2005 and I am not averse to it :) ). And honestly do you think a windows user migrating to Linux will research this? ( wink ;) [ all in good humor] ) Cheers On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Pedro Villavicencio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > thanks for the report, does it works with another new user? which > version of ubuntu are you running? and btw just a quick answer, where > did you read that meta-gnome2 is the package for filling bugs about that > in ubuntu? we are getting a few bugs here which have nothing to do with > the package and it would be nice to see where people is reading that, > thanks you. > > ** Changed in: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu) > Importance: Undecided => Low > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > wallpaper dissapeared, not being applied > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264800 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "meta-gnome2" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: gnome > > Something strange has happened after the latest update today. > > My wallpaper is missing in gnome and I am unable to change any in Preferences > > Appearance > Background > select wallpaper > close. No effect. background > is empty, no image displayed > > Latest upgrade done from > unattended-upgrades-dpkg_2008-09-04_08\:05\:01.664357.log: > (Reading database ... 185891 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to replace libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1 (using > .../libxml2_2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement libxml2 ... > Preparing to replace libxml2-utils 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1 (using > .../libxml2-utils_2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement libxml2-utils ... > Preparing to replace python-libxml2 2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1 (using > .../python-libxml2_2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1_i386.deb) ... > Unpacking replacement python-libxml2 ... > Setting up libxml2 (2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1) ... > > Setting up libxml2-utils (2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1) ... > Setting up python-libxml2 (2.6.31.dfsg-2ubuntu1.1) ... > > Processing triggers for libc6 ... > ldconfig deferred processing now taking place > > I am not sure ow it broke my wallpaper setting, but its gone! > > 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 17:32:09 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux > > Let me know if you need any further info. > > TIA > -- Kind Regards GobbleDeGeek [For everything Gobbledegook!!] -- wallpaper dissapeared, not being applied https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264800 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to meta-gnome2 in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
