Updated Jaunty - lost window manager

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 18:26:36 UTC 2009


Brian McKee wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I installed the netbook edition of Jaunty and it was working well. I
> added a few applications, moved a couple of files around, switched to
> regular desktop view and turned on extra effects in compiz, then ran
> aptitude dist-upgrade.
> When that completed and I rebooted - I've lost any window manager and
> the gnome panels - i.e. all I've got is a desktop.
>
> It's beta still - so quite possibly a recent update broke things and I
> just need to wait a day or so and update again - but I wondered if
> anybody else had seen similar.
>
> Brian
>
>   
    If your using wireless you will find you lost that too. I have 
Jaunty Beta and the 240 updates ruined mine. But I did it again and 
didn't update a few things and it's fine now. You may want to re-load 
Jaunty and then update with extreme care :-)

Karl


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