Re: Help! I broke my Gnome!

From: J.O. Aho (user_at_example.net)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:16:24 +0100

J-F Bilodeau wrote:
> I'm running Mandrake 9.1, with Gnome 2.2.
>
> I wanted to be clever, and install Gnome 2.4 on my machine. I downloaded
> all the tar files from ftp.gnome.org, and compiled everything (I did not
> use garnome). At first, I tried to compile and install in the default
> location (/usr/local) but that would not work, so I tried /usr, and
> everything compiled and installed without problem! (Is this a Mandrake
> thing?)
>
> However, now when I start Gnome, I get my wallpaper, and this nasty
> message many times:
>
> 'There was a problem registering the panel with the bonobo-activation
> server.
> The error code is: 1
> The panel will now exit.'
>
> Nothing else works. I have to CTRL+ALT+BKSPC to get out.
>
> I've been without my Gnome for nearly a week now, and I haven't found a
> solution on the web so far. Althought I'm a software developer, I'm
> still fairly new to Linux. Does anyone have any idea how I could
> resurect my Gnome?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> J-F Bilodeau

You most likely missed to build some of the new stuff needed by Gnome2. I do
warmly suggest you try to get hold on a premade setup of RPMs for Mandrake
than take the long and dangerous way of trying to do it yourself.

Usually I do suggest to download src.rpm and rebuild those, but in the case of
Gnome2, I don't recommedn that.

  //Aho

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