No Task bar In my Centos 5.6 Gnome

wachira · 04-16-2011, 10:53 AM

I upgraded my Centos 5.5 to 5.6 and now my task bar is missing even the time is not visibal. What could have gone wrong?

rknichols · 04-16-2011, 11:53 AM

You got bit by a bug in the glibc update. See https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb...30939&forum=37.

Quickest solution is to open up a terminal (right-click on the desktop background should give you that option), become root, and run "yum downgrade glibc".

You can prevent the broken update from being accepted again by adding this line to your /etc/yum.conf :

Code:

exclude=glibc*-2.5-58.el5_6.2 nscd-2.5-58.el5_6.2

unSpawn · 04-16-2011, 01:51 PM

..or use the LS update as describe here: http://listserv.fnal.gov/scripts/wa....1DC3C0&P=15286 until a fix is released. The full exclude line as posted here is: "exclude=glibc*2.5-58.el5_6.2 nscd*2.5-58.el5_6.2 xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1".

frankbell · 04-16-2011, 08:14 PM

I think I got hit by the same bug. The panels were present but did not populate.

The only way to get out was to kill X with CTRL-ALT-BKSP. (I like to boot to the command line precisely because of this sort of stuff.)

I created a new user and new user's Gnome was okay.

So I deleted the /home/[username]/.gnome* files in my regular user's home folder, started Gnome, and it was okay back to the default settings.