Updating to GNOME 2.6

gjmwalsh · 06-26-2004, 01:36 PM

I have recently encountered a problem with GNOME 2.6 which was operating fine in the past few months.

However, now it runs into CORBA related problems in not being able to access any applets on the tool bar. But it also freezes everything on the desktop. Clearly something has changed in cooker which GNOME depends upon. I guess I can move backwards to 2.4 or install myself from tarball.

Has anyone else met and dealt with this situation?

misterm · 06-27-2004, 01:35 PM

I have the same problem. I used recently urpmi to update to gnome 2.6, using a cooker mirror for urpmi. The same sitiuation described above. No toolbars, and Nautilus crashing at startup - in and outside gnome. Nasty. Tried also to delete configs - with no success. Anyone out were how had and solved that problem? Or which urpmi server to use, perhaps with little older gnome 2.6 files?

gjmwalsh · 06-28-2004, 06:31 PM

Thanks so much for the confirmation. It's great to feel no longer alone.

I am, at this point, giving serious consideration to building GNOME from tarball. I bit messy, and lacking some of the great hooks, but GNOME is what we use for development, along with gimp, glade, anjuta et al so we are at a standstill.

What I do know is that the problem was introduced in the mirrors a week ago Monday, Until then GNOME 2.6 was operating beautifully.

gjmwalsh · 06-28-2004, 06:34 PM

Another thought: before building from tarballs, I may well attempt a full update to cooker (10.1) level which might fix the problem if it is with one of GNOME's dependencies and not GNOME itself.

George

gjmwalsh · 06-30-2004, 06:56 PM

Well, don't bother with the idea of a full cooker update. A quick look at the rpm listings show that therev levels are not the same for all components. With 2.6.2-2 announced yesterday, I'll either wait until its in cooker or tarball it myself. GNOME is gust too critcal in all our development work .....

misterm · 07-01-2004, 01:18 PM

So inform me if you get it with the new gnome release and cooker... i have a fast internet connection but i pay for the traffic... so it would be good to now if it works with new rpms/gnome or if it is just again a waste of traffic.

gjmwalsh · 07-06-2004, 04:51 PM

As requested:

GNOME 2.6.2 from cooker is working just fine now!

Elemental233 · 07-12-2004, 06:10 AM

hi all. im totally

to linux and im trying to upgrade gnome to 2.6.2. and have spent the last 4 hours trying to find info on how to update it

. if you guys/gals wouldent mind giveing me a step by step tut on it.

i will love you forever. thnks for your time.