Re: [SLE] gnome panel not responding

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:11:11 -0400 Carl Hartung <suselinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 15:35, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
Would like to get the gnome panel functioning. Suggestions, please.

Hi Mikus,

I successfully upgraded my 10.0 system using SUSE's supplementary branch, but
it was some time back and I've forgotten the details. However, I seem to
recall a rather serious conflict with libwnck(spelling?) that would not
resolve easily... that and one with evolution-data-server.

It's a bit of a slog, but here's how I accomplished it:

* add the supplementary GNOME branch to your YaST installation sources
* launch the 'Software Management' module
* enable the filter "Selections", top-left
* turn off "Autocheck" for dependencies
* highlight "GNOME system" in the left pane
* for each blue (can be upgraded) item in the right pane:
- click the checkbox once to enable 'update'
- click the "Check Dependencies" button
* when "All package dependencies are OK" displays, try the next item
* when, instead, a conflict is generated, click "Cancel" and reset to "keep"

The goal is to proceed through the entire list of "Gnome system" packages and
click "Accept" to upgrade as many as possible without encountering/causing
conflicts.

Try this procedure and see if it doesn't clear your problem up.

Haven't tried it - principally because adding YaST installation sources
has always seemed too arcane a subject for me. Maybe if I get desperate
enough ?!? [I instead use 'smart --gui' (and sometimes 'apt-get') to
access 3rd party repositories.]


For reference, following is the result of an 'rpm -qa | grep gnome' from my
10.0 system.

Carl

carl@linux:~> rpm -qa | grep gnome

The 10.0 system that is accessible to me at home was almost identical
to what you listed. The principal difference was that on my system,
'gnome-panel' and 'gnome-applets' were at the 2.12.2 level (gotten off
the gnome repository) whereas yours were at the 2.12.0 level (gotten
off the base repository). Just to be equal, I downgraded these two
packages to also be at the 2.12.0 level. It made no difference - I
still keep getting all the problem symptoms I described earlier.

Not counting things I don't need such as 'gnome-pilot', the only
remaining differences between my sytem and yours are the presence
on my system of the following extra packages (which to me don't seem
significant). Maybe I'll try deleting them, but don't have much hope:

gnome-vfs-1.0.5-840
gnome-commander-1.1.7-2
gnome-print-0.37-23
gnome-panel-debuginfo-2.12.0-5
gnome-system-tools-1.4.1-20
gnome-printer-add-1.0.1-16
gnome-common-2.12.0-14


Thank you, Carl, for your help -- but at the moment I'm still stuck.
Tomorrow I'll try fooling around with libwnck.


mikus


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