Gnome upper panel not responding...???

[Graham Watkins]

NoOp wrote:
> and I wonder if:
>
> $ sudo apt-get remove gnome-desktop-environment
> $ sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
>
> would have accomplished the same?
>
>
>
>   
I have severe panel problems and  it didn't work for me.

graham at graham-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get remove gnome-desktop-environment
[sudo] password for graham:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Package gnome-desktop-environment is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
  libstdc++5 vorbis-tools libbtctl4 mplayer-skins mplayer libgnomebt0
  libid3-3.8.3c2a
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
graham at graham-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies.
  gnome-desktop-environment: Depends: fast-user-switch-applet (>= 
2.22.0) but it is not installable
                             Recommends: fam but it is not going to be 
installed
E: Broken packages
graham at graham-desktop:~$