Just complete apt-get /update/upgrade and my system is bonked!

[James Mcphee]

Toast your gnome and gconf directories and let them rebuild?

On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> Craig,
>
> Thanks. I actually rebooted the machine after apt-get upgrade and that is
> when the problem occurred. I then shutdown the machine and started it up
> again and the problem persisted.
>
> I looked in /var/log for a gnome log, but I don't see anything. Dmesg
> doesn't show any errors that I can see. Where does gnome write error
> messages?
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Mark
>
> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 17:48 -0700, Mark Phillips wrote:
>> > I am running Debian testing on my laptop. Just completed a routine
>> > apt-get update apt-get upgrade, and now all my desktop icons are gone
>> > and every time I access the menus (Applications, Places, System) the
>> > upper and lower menu bars disappear and then come back. I am writing
>> > this email in a browser window, so once an application is launched it
>> > seems to work OK.
>> >
>> >
>> > I have no idea where to start debugging this problem. Any suggestions
>> > are welcome!
>> >
>> > Mark
>> >
>> > P.S. I am running gnome, not KDE. Also, I cannot right click on the
>> > desktop - nothing happens.
>> ----
>> if one of the core libraries for gnome has changed, you might need to
>> log out and log back in again.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>
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