Intrepid Upgrade Issues

[Simon Ives]

Hi all.

This morning I decided to upgrade to intrepid on my notebook.  The
upgrade went fine and reported no errors.  Upon boot, however, the
system entered into KDE rather than Gnome (strange seen as I'd never
previously installed KDE).  A logged out and changed the session to
Gnome and when the system had finished loading nothing but my wallpaper
is present.  I can't even alt+F2 to launch an application.

I rebooted into KDE and opened up Synaptic to see if there was a gnome
package missing.  Synaptic reported that Gnome wasn't installed at all,
although it also reported the same for KDE.  I selected the Gnome and
KDE packages and their dependencies, installed them, rebooted, and still
no Gnome (although KDE seems to have a few extras now).

Can anyone help on getting my Gnome desktop back?  I've no idea where to
look.  And while I don't mind KDE (which seems quite nice, I haven't
used it since RH7) I would really like Gnome back.

Thanks.
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Simon Ives

simon at simonives.info
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