Gnome upper panel not responding...???

Larry Shields larryesu at charter.net
Sun Nov 15 12:03:28 UTC 2009


Graham Watkins wrote:
> 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:~$
>
>
>   
*Why don't you try this:

*

do a 'yum groupremove "GNOME Desktop Environment"' and
>> then a "yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"'?

It worked for me...

I've never had any luck by removing an app, then trying to reinstall it...

Larry

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