you didn't upgrade your Gnome to helix did you?
Salane
On Thursday 28 December 2000 05:18, you wrote:
> Hi! I have a perplexing problem with a Mandrake 7.2 installation.
> Everything seems to go well, I have installed both Gnome and KDE but
> always boot graphically to Gnome, until I have a reason to reboot.
> Obviously I can go some time without needing to do that <GRIN>. But,
> when I do, I have a problem. Upon reboot I have lost Gnome support.
> The graphical login program tells me that Gnome is no longer
> available on my system and asks if I would like to change my default
> login to KDE. When I check the list of installed graphical
> environments both Gnome and Sawfish are missing and they were there.
> This happens to me when the reboot is a completely normal shutdown
> and reboot so that everything gets shutdown properly and it has
> happened four times now so there is a certain frustrating consistency
> about it.
>
> This isn't a problem I have noticed anyone talking about. Has anyone
> discovered how to prevent the disappearance of gnome on a system
> reboot? The immediate fix would be some information on how to edit
> the configuration of the available graphical environment choices
> since I can get back into gnome when I come up from the command line
> with startx and .xinitrc. Still, the alteration of my startup
> configuration is so dramatic and consistent that I would like to know
> what is causing it as well as how to fix the symptoms. Thanks for any
> assistance you might have to offer.
>
> Traci
