Intrepid is still in Beta at the moment. If you aren't familiar with troubleshooting broken Ubuntu/Debian systems, it's not recommended that you use it until it's officially released, and the "update-manager" and "update-manager-core" applications work with it to solve any upgrade-time dependency issues.
With that out of the way... Ubuntu installs GNOME by default via the "ubuntu-desktop" metapackage (as opposed to "kubuntu-desktop" for KDE). Try and reinstall it, and it should bring with it all of the dependencies necessary for gnome. When done and in GNOME, you can remove the "kubuntu-desktop" package and clean a few things up if you like. -Dan Simon Ives wrote: > Hi all. > > This morning I decided to upgrade to intrepid on my notebook. The > upgrade went fine and reported no errors. Upon boot, however, the > system entered into KDE rather than Gnome (strange seen as I'd never > previously installed KDE). A logged out and changed the session to > Gnome and when the system had finished loading nothing but my wallpaper > is present. I can't even alt+F2 to launch an application. > > I rebooted into KDE and opened up Synaptic to see if there was a gnome > package missing. Synaptic reported that Gnome wasn't installed at all, > although it also reported the same for KDE. I selected the Gnome and > KDE packages and their dependencies, installed them, rebooted, and still > no Gnome (although KDE seems to have a few extras now). > > Can anyone help on getting my Gnome desktop back? I've no idea where to > look. And while I don't mind KDE (which seems quite nice, I haven't > used it since RH7) I would really like Gnome back. > > Thanks. -- ubuntu-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
