Hi

I upgraded from Debian Sarge to Etch.
Previously used Gnome on Sarge (the std 2.8.3 I think)

However after dist-upgrade system restarted with KDE3.5 (I didn't want to, I expected to restart in Gnome). (for info KDE is working OK (except for mouse speed see 2nd prob below))

How do I get back to Gnome?

I'm assuming this is some X11server to Xorg transition problem.....

I am seeing errors on locale (is this part of problem?):

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LANGUAGE = "en_FR:en_US:en_GB:en",
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = "en_US"
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory



2nd problem: laptop trackpad mouse (DellD610) is now horribly slow , was OK before. What is remedy?

well, for the first problem, are you sure that gnome is still installed?

errm , good question. I assumed as this was a dist-upgrade all my packages would be kept (at least the desktop ones)

thats what I would think too. however, it couldnt hurt to do apt-get --reinstall gnome
then just make sure you select gnome as the login session :-D

seemed gnome wasn't re-installed by dist-upgrade. I had previously removed Evolution as was desperately looking for space for the upgrade, maybe that affected it.
Was basically following upgrade instructions on debian.org.

I installed gnome-desktop-environment as short for space on root partition (n.b choose 10GB if you can , not 5GB like I did a year ago). (all gnome + apps requires about 750MB)
Note my Etch upgrade required about 800MB free space for a dist-upgrade .

So I had to do upgrade incrementally, doing aptitude clean as I went along to free up space.

For the locale problem I aptitude install locales and reconfigured that.


I still have a broken trackpad on my Dell - or more precisely one that moves across screen at snail's pace (this worked OK in Sarge). The trackpointer works OK. Anyone know how to reconfigure trackpad (don't think its in Gnome Apps) - some dpkg-reconfigure command I guess.

If space is that critical, a nice program to install is "localepurge"

On istallation, you tell it which languages you want, and it clears out the other ones, then keeps them cleaned out on an ongoing basis.

I don't know about your trackpad, but tweaking can probably be done in dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. Maybe do a google search on "trackpad dell xorg" and see if that comes up with some suggestions.