John Oliver wrote: > 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. >
Tell us -- what was the clue that told you gnome-session was missing? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
