gnome-panel won't start after upgrade to GNOME 2.6
I run Debian/unstable on my desktop. Last night I upgraded the GNOME desktop environment (which I use all the time) from version 2.4 to 2.6 using synaptic, but when I restarted X and tried to login to gnome 2.6, the gnome-panel program (now version 2.6.2) gives the following error message:
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Googling for this problem returned scant results, mostly other people having the same problem but I found no solutions/workarounds to fix this problem. Any suggestions? |
I remember having that problem too when I upgraded to gnome 2.6, but it disappeared when I restarted (if I remember well, not sure). If you don't want to restart, maybe you can kill all gnome-programs maybe...
I had lots of trouble upgrading, the upgrade made my desktop quite useless. I solved it by adding experimental ( deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ experimental main ) and unstable (I use testing) to my apt-sources and updating my gnome again, and it finally worked quite well. Now I can use most programs again, but some gnome-programs are still broken unfortunately. I'm afraid that's just the pain of living on the edge... Succes, Sterrenkijker |
Testing still has a mixture of gnome 2.4 and gnome 2.6 packages. In my mind, this make testing less stable than unstable. For instance gnome-media and gnome-utils are still at 2.4 in testing.
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I rather crudely solved the problem by restoring a backup image of my root partition I had made a week before, thus wiping out gnome 2.6 (and a week's worth of changes not stored somewhere in my home directory, which were minimal, fortunately). I am happily running gnome 2.4 again, and I may try to upgrade to gnome 2.6 when they release the next upgrade.
I'll try that experimental line in my sources.list when I get a chance to play with apt some more. Thanks for the suggestions! |
I've detected a panel already running and will now exit.
Problem: Suddenly Gnome logins get the error message: "I've detected a panel already running, and will now exit". One can with a right click open a terminal and write 'killall gnome panel' then 'gnome-panel'.
What triggered this on my computer was that another user (in my case root) changed the desktop background (no joking!) and used a .png file. After either removing the file or use a .bmp the problem was solved. Check that out. gnome-panel-2.8.1-5.el4 |
I run GNOME + Debian Unstable too.. the version on *my* system is 2.18.3. Could you post your sources.list?
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