| Stephen Gran on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 14:10:05 -0500 |
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 12:23:10PM -0500, Arthur S. Alexion said: > a while back, I got some help getting rid of some of the unwanted > effects of an evolution install. With help from this list and a very > helpful guy named Mark Gordon on the Evolution list, I was able to > restore the kdm login and jpilot/pilot-link. All I wanted to do was to > run evolution as an MUA so that I could get mail when occasionally > using gnome instead of firing up kmail and the kdelibs in gnome. > > I believe that it was Mark who advised me that uninstalling the > gnome-pilot and pilot-link.ximian packages and reinstall jpilot and the > basic pilot-link would reinvigor jpilot synching while keeping the MUA > capabilities of evolution. > > On this list, I got help changing /etc/sysconfig/desktop to restore kdm. > > That worked for a while, but now gnome won't load and evolution won't > run under windowmaker either. > > Gnome seems to load, but no panel and no desktop icons. Just > wallpaper. My only option is ctrl+alt+<backspace>. > > Trying to launch evolution from a terminal in windowmaker indicates > that the launching script or binary is gone. > > Red carpet seems to be gone too, except the directories are still there. > > I don't have a clue what happened. If this is GNOME2, the bonobo libs caused exactly this sort of breakage recently. You need to downgrade back to the last working version (1.3, I think) If it's not GNOME2, then I'm not sure. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | All a man needs out of life is a place | | steve@lobefin.net | to sit 'n' spit in the fire. | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Attachment:
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