Gnome Disapeared from the boot menu

[Guillermo Garron]

Hi all,

I have just missed my Gnome from the boot menu, i only have KDE as option,

any clues?
sorry i can not give you any more details, but i really don't know
where to start.

Will i have to remove and reinstall all Gnome? hope not it will take
my lot of time on the internet :(

regards,

Guillermo.

[Jim Cornette]

Guillermo Garron wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have just missed my Gnome from the boot menu, i only have KDE as option,
>
> any clues?
> sorry i can not give you any more details, but i really don't know
> where to start.
>
> Will i have to remove and reinstall all Gnome? hope not it will take
> my lot of time on the internet :(
>
> regards,
>
> Guillermo.

You can use 'switchdesk gnome' in a terminal as a regular user to switch 
the default desktop to gnome.

Regarding the missing entry for gnome in the display manager, the 
problem most likely is within the display manager itself. There are 
three that I know of, xdm, gdm and kdm. I believe removing gdm will make 
kdm as the display manager.

If gnome is messed up, running
yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
might pull in the missing pieces.

I tried it on my system and only gnome-screesaver and hal-gnome was 
pulled in. I canceled the upgrade request and just installed hal-gnome. 
The one package is intentional. The other does not have a bad reputation 
  yet for me.

Anyway, it will not reinstall already installed rpms, just the missing rpms.

Jim

[Guillermo Garron]

On 8/30/06, Jim Cornette  wrote:
> Guillermo Garron wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have just missed my Gnome from the boot menu, i only have KDE as option,
> >
> > any clues?
> > sorry i can not give you any more details, but i really don't know
> > where to start.
> >
> > Will i have to remove and reinstall all Gnome? hope not it will take
> > my lot of time on the internet :(
> >
> > regards,
> >
> > Guillermo.
>
> You can use 'switchdesk gnome' in a terminal as a regular user to switch
> the default desktop to gnome.
>
> Regarding the missing entry for gnome in the display manager, the
> problem most likely is within the display manager itself. There are
> three that I know of, xdm, gdm and kdm. I believe removing gdm will make
> kdm as the display manager.
>
> If gnome is messed up, running
> yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> might pull in the missing pieces.
>
> I tried it on my system and only gnome-screesaver and hal-gnome was
> pulled in. I canceled the upgrade request and just installed hal-gnome.
> The one package is intentional. The other does not have a bad reputation
>   yet for me.
>
> Anyway, it will not reinstall already installed rpms, just the missing rpms.
>
> Jim

Thank you Jim

I think i have found the problem, yesterday i have installed and
deinstalled some programs (in order to make yum update faster) and i
think i messed up the whole think
look at this below (comes from my WatchLog)

Packages Installed:
    ghostscript-fonts.noarch 5.50-13.1
    evince.i386 0.5.1-3
    libgnomeprint22.i386 2.12.1-4.2
    cups.i386 1:1.2.2-1.8
    eel2.i386 2.14.3-1.fc5
    nautilus-cd-burner.i386 2.14.3-1.fc5
    libgnomecups.i386 0.2.2-3.2.1
    nautilus.i386 2.14.3-1.fc5
    libgnomeprintui22.i386 2.12.1-1.2.1
    ghostscript.i386 8.15.2-1.1

Packages Erased:
    nautilus
    nautilus-cd-burner
    file-roller
    control-center
    gnome-applets
    gnome-python2-gnomeprint
    gtksourceview
    system-config-printer-gui
    gimp-print-utils
    cups
    gnome-volume-manager
    xine
    ltsp-utils
    gimp-gap
    gimp-print-plugin
    system-config-printer
    hal-cups-utils
    gnome-utils
    gimp-data-extras
    ghostscript-fonts
    hpijs
    evolution-webcal
    gedit
    gnome-media
    eel2
    gimp-print
    libgnomecups
    gimp
    evince
    eel2-devel
    libgnomeprintui22-devel
    sound-juicer
    gnome-session
    librsvg2
    libgnomeprint22
    planner
    enscript
    librsvg2-devel
    libgnomeprint22-devel
    gnome-games
    xine-lib
    gtkhtml3
    libgnomeprintui22
    tftp-server
    ImageMagick
    a2ps
    ghostscript
    gimp-help
    desktop-printing
    totem
    gnome-python2-gtksourceview
    kphone
    samba-client
    gthumb
    gdm
    rhythmbox
    redhat-lsb
    yelp

[Jim Cornette]

Guillermo Garron wrote:
> > If gnome is messed up, running
> > yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> > might pull in the missing pieces.
> >
> > I tried it on my system and only gnome-screesaver and hal-gnome was
> > pulled in. I canceled the upgrade request and just installed hal-gnome.
> > The one package is intentional. The other does not have a bad reputation
> >   yet for me.
> >
> > Anyway, it will not reinstall already installed rpms, just the missing 
> > rpms.
> >
> > Jim
>
> Thank you Jim
>
> I think i have found the problem, yesterday i have installed and
> deinstalled some programs (in order to make yum update faster) and i
> think i messed up the whole think
> look at this below (comes from my WatchLog)
>
> .. Lots of rpms removed

It looks like you thinned down the installation quite a bit. You still 
might be able to recover from this with a group install.

Of course, you might just reinstall and unselect packages that you want 
to slim and pick the packages that you do want to install.

This defeats your goal to speed up yum though. You probably will be 
better off running yum grouplist and picking the groups that you want. 
Then follow-up with the groupinstall option.

Once yum grabs the packages, yum should only grab the latest packages 
and the updates will not be very large. (Usually)

Jim

[Guillermo Garron]

On 8/31/06, Jim Cornette  wrote:
> Guillermo Garron wrote:
> > > If gnome is messed up, running
> > > yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> > > might pull in the missing pieces.
> > >
> > > I tried it on my system and only gnome-screesaver and hal-gnome was
> > > pulled in. I canceled the upgrade request and just installed hal-gnome.
> > > The one package is intentional. The other does not have a bad reputation
> > >   yet for me.
> > >
> > > Anyway, it will not reinstall already installed rpms, just the missing
> > > rpms.
> > >
> > > Jim
> >
> > Thank you Jim
> >
> > I think i have found the problem, yesterday i have installed and
> > deinstalled some programs (in order to make yum update faster) and i
> > think i messed up the whole think
> > look at this below (comes from my WatchLog)
> >
> > .. Lots of rpms removed
>
> It looks like you thinned down the installation quite a bit. You still
> might be able to recover from this with a group install.
>
> Of course, you might just reinstall and unselect packages that you want
> to slim and pick the packages that you do want to install.
>
> This defeats your goal to speed up yum though. You probably will be
> better off running yum grouplist and picking the groups that you want.
> Then follow-up with the groupinstall option.
>
> Once yum grabs the packages, yum should only grab the latest packages
> and the updates will not be very large. (Usually)

Thanks Jim,

guillermo