On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:52:45AM -0700, John Oliver wrote: > Did an init 5, and instead of gnome, I get twm. I try to switchdesk > gnome, but... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# switchdesk gnome > Red Hat Linux switchdesk 4.0 > Copyright (C) 1999-2004 Red Hat, Inc > Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License > ERROR: GNOME not installed! > > But... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# rpm -qa | grep gnome > gnome-vfs2-2.8.2-8.2 > gnome-python2-2.6.0-3 > gnome-desktop-2.8.0-5 > gnome-mime-data-2.4.1-5 > gnome-keyring-0.4.0-1 > libgnomecanvas-2.8.0-1 > libgnome-2.8.0-2 > libgnomeui-2.8.0-1 > gnome-python2-bonobo-2.6.0-3 > up2date-gnome-4.5.5-5.el4 > libgnomecups-0.1.12-5 > libgnomeprintui22-2.8.0-1 > gnome-python2-canvas-2.6.0-3 > gnome-python2-gtkhtml2-2.6.0-3 > openssh-askpass-gnome-3.9p1-8.RHEL4.20 > libgnomeprint22-2.8.0-3 > > I'm finding several references to this issue with Google, but no > solutions. Anyone know what happened, why, how to fix, and how to > prevent it from happening again?
For the archives: The gnome-session package was missing. What happened to it? Why did gnome work, and then not work? Who knows? But installing gnome-session (and it's utterly ridiculous family of dependencies... someone ought to get slapped, hard) was installed, the GNOME login screen was available again. -- *********************************************************************** * John Oliver http://www.john-oliver.net/ * * * *********************************************************************** -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
