Hoary Upgrade - Unable to start Gnome

[steven at heimann.com.au]

Thank you to both Eamonn & Sebastian who suggested ubuntu-base and 
ubuntu-destop needed to be installed.

Unfortunately I had meant to mention in my original email that this was 
one of the fixes I tried.

Any other suggestions?

Steven

Professionals built the Titanic, amateurs built the Ark.




ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com wrote on 14/04/2005 09:25:53 PM:

> On 4/14/05, steven at heimann.com.au <steven at heimann.com.au> wrote:
> > I just upgraded a computer from Warty to Hoary using synaptic and 
trying
> > to follow the upgrade notes.
> > 
> > Gnome will no longer start.  I get the error "There was an error 
loading
> > the theme Human - bad size specifier scale".  If I press enter to 
continue
> > the error pops up again.
> > 
> > I tried changing /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf to another theme but it is 
still
> > trying to use Human.
> > 
> > Any suggestions.
> 
> I would just make sure you have *all* of ubuntu-base and 
ubunutu-desktop. 
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-base
> sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
> 
> There might be something missing -- but just a guess. 
> 
> --Eamonn
> 
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