After running apt-get update on my Debian install last night (actually I used apt-zip but it's the same thing) I now find that gnome 2.4 won't start (it was working fine before).
dmesg (or alt-f9) doesn't seem to show anything untoward except for some gconfd messages saying gnome is shutting down.
Does anyone know if/where gnome keeps its own run logs so I can get a clue why it's throwing a wobbler? I tried the www.gnome.org site but it's definitely an information overload situation when looking for clues to this. Google wasn't much help either.
Regards,
Keith ____________ Live life as life lives itself. Zen Proverb
At 01:47pm on Fri, 25 Jun 2004, Keith Watson wrote:
After running apt-get update on my Debian install last night (actually I used apt-zip but it's the same thing) I now find that gnome 2.4 won't start (it was working fine before).
dmesg (or alt-f9) doesn't seem to show anything untoward except for some gconfd messages saying gnome is shutting down.
Does anyone know if/where gnome keeps its own run logs so I can get a clue why it's throwing a wobbler? I tried the www.gnome.org site but it's definitely an information overload situation when looking for clues to this. Google wasn't much help either.
Regards,
Keith ____________ Live life as life lives itself. Zen Proverb
Cracked this one in a very round about way.
While I was looking round for Xfree86 and Gnome log and config files I noticed that as well as the usual smatter of *.dpkg-dist files I seemed to have a large number of *.dpkg-old and *.dpkg-new files as well. I suspected that when I'd done the upgrade the config of the upgraded packages had either failed or not worked. So I did a dpkg --configure --all and afterwards everything worked as expected.
I DO like Debian!! :o)
Keith
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