Rawhide: Gnome totally busted after today's (?) round of updates

Nathaniel McCallum nathaniel at natemccallum.com
Tue Jan 11 22:37:25 UTC 2011


On 01/11/2011 05:28 PM, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> After "yum erase"ing rhythmbox (it did hold back some hundreds of updates),
> and rebooting into my Gnome/Openbox session (and leaving, the screensaver
> kicked in) I found the background flickering. I gave the password to the
> screensaver, and the background stabilized, but nothing else (Gnome panels,
> etc) did show up.
> 
> Went to alt-ctrl-F2, logged into root and did:
> 
> telinit 3
> telinit 5
> 
> No X did show up. Rebooted by ctrl-alt-del, and tried with plain Gnome. No
> dice either. Rebooted again, now running XFCE4.

Same for me, also running XFCE.  I also created a new/clean user to see
if there was a problem with my gnome config, but the problem exists
there as well.  I searched for bugs, but didn't find anything.  I'm not
sure what component to file it under.

Nathaniel


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