On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:10:25PM +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote: > When I click 'Applications->Desktop Preferences->Font' on the top left > of the top panel a small square appears on the bottom left of the > bottom panel saying > > 'Aa Starting Font' > > ... sits there for a while ... then disappears. Previously a font config > panel would open up in the center of the screen allowing me to adjust > font size and/or select another font.
Try running gnome-font-properties in a GNOME terminal and see whether you get some error messages you can relate to us. > The same occurs for 'Applications->Desktop Preferences->Themes' and > 'Applications->Desktop Preferences-> Sound'. The last is not so > important since the ALSA sound modules in 2.6.5 kicked in. That would be gnome-theme-manager and gnome-sound-properties. > >>I recently did a number of 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing" [...] > > > >Were any packages inadvertently removed by the "apt-get dist-upgrade"? > > > Not that I am aware of. > > >Was there a reason you were performing the dist-upgrade? > > > I had upgraded to kernel 2.6.5 but on second dist-upgrade I could not > get past a 'Kernel Panic'. I got past this via mkinitrd and tried to fix > any problems via 'apt-get dist-upgrade --fix-missing'. You should not run dist-upgrade in general, that can lead to bad effects. Run apt-get upgrade all the time and if packages are being kept back, run apt-get dist-upgrade afterwards and have a close look at what APT wants to do. What Debian distribution are you running anyway? testing? Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
