[Novalug] Gnome on Suse 10.1 hosed

[Todd Hakala]

I let my Suse 10.1 box do an auto update, and something really bad  
must have gone wrong with the Gnome system files, or the update  
process went kablooey in mid-update while I was away from the  
machine. When I logged back in, I had no menu bar at the top, which  
makes Gnome nearly useless.

So I logged in with FVWM (the only GUI that still worked) and ran  
YaST. It said that all the Gnome stuff was still installed, and  
needed no update.

I thought I could uninstall Gnome (while in FVWM), and then reinstall  
Gnome, all via YaST. So I did the uninstall, and now Gnome wont run  
at all (freeze at the splash screen, only recourse is to Ctrl-Alt- 
Backsace back to the CLI.) FVWM seems a little weird and incomplete,  
but it still works, but is really slow.

I realize that this question is short on tech details, but the  
general question is how do I get back to using Gnome again? I am  
tempted to just abandon all hope and completely reinstall Suse from  
scratch.

Other than the GUI, the machine seems to run fine. Apache, Samba, PHP  
and MySQL et al don't appear to be affected.

Any ideas from any of you smart people?

Todd
todd at brambleton.net



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