[desktop-discuss] unable to start gnome after upgrading to SXDE4

[Ghee Teo]

Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:58:52 +0100
> Gérard Henry <gerard.henry at free.fr> wrote:
>
>   
>> Ghee Teo a écrit :
>>     
>>> Ge'rard Henry wrote:
>>>       
>>>> hello all,
>>>> after upgrading a sun ultra 20 from S10U4 to SXDE4 with
>>>> liveupgrade, i'm unable to login with gnome, but it works with CDE.
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>> Try fc-cache --force
>>> as root and then reboot
>>> Might work as a workaround.
>>>
>>>       
>> thanks for your fast reply. It works for me!
>>     
>
> I had the same experience. Could not find a cause. Did a gnome-cleanup
> without result. And than I run "netservices open" and all of a sudden
> gnome worked again. The "netservices limited" did not change that.
>   
Did Gerard did a liveupgrade or simply an Upgrade? I knew the workaround
I provided was than the installer uses a different time zone from that 
of the installed
time zone. Somehow along the way, the fc-cache thinks the fonts 
information is
up to date so it couldn't bother to regenerate the cache but some fonts 
used in S10
and Nevada are different.
> I wonder which service is is that was not running on the older sxde3
> and was needed on the new sxde4.
>   
So you were upgrading from sxde3 to sxde4 or from s10U to sxde4?

-Ghee
> Still, I think the matter should have been delt with before the
> release. It gave me quite a bit of worry ;-)
>
>