Gnome borked after recent Lucid updates

[Tom H]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Ants Pants <antsmailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 April 2010 18:42, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Ants Pants <antsmailinglist at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > I've just updated my machine to the latest Lucid packages and it's
>> > borked
>> > Gnome.

>> Yes. Metacity was uninstalled because of a conflict. There will be an
>> update soon enough.

> This morning when I went to upgrade, the were metacity packages being
> withheld from running apt-get on the CL. But from Update Manager, I was able
> to do a prtial update and they installed.
>
> Is this something to do with it?

Yes.


> When you say there will be an update soon enough, do you mean today/tonight?
> And how do you know about this?

This is beta software. There are daily updates of many packages and
there will be an update to metacity in the next days to correct this
problem. There was an earlier update that killed X entirely; this is
normal.