On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 14:07, Jean-Christophe Michel wrote: > > I made the error of upgrading my sid/gnome two days ago. > This changed gconf2 to 2.4 and i lost evolution-mail; > one of the messages asked to log out and in again. > When trying to login into gnome, i was warned the session didn't last > 10s, because gnome-check-config-2 didn't pass. > The only way for me to see gnome back was to change > /usr.lib/gconf2/gnome-check-config-2 and set a stupid script returning 0 > instead. But now i have only evolution, all menus, icons... are messed > up. > > I know all this is probably related to the repository being broken.
Not so sure, I think I'm running all the 2.4 stuff from sid without problems. Maybe some GNOME related daemons survived even the logout-login procedure and are causing problems now? Does the problem persist over a reboot? > What solution can you suggest me to downgrade last upgrade ? local .debs > were deleted :( There's always http://snapshot.debian.net/ . > and i have no console under gnome. > > Second question: why isn't it possible to have a real console (plain > screen) with F2 or F3 ? never worked here. Failsafe console is only a > quarter screen ;( Doesn't ctrl-alt(-fn)-Fx work for you? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | Debian (powerpc), X and DRI developer Software libre enthusiast | http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
