[Gnome22-user] Some GNOME 2.2 Icons Broken

[Ing. Ramiro Espinosa]

Are there any Gnome2.4 backport for Debian Stable to be released?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Strandboge" <jstrand1@rochester.rr.com>
To: "Michael G. Morey" <mmorey@optivel.com>
Cc: "Debian GNOME 2.2 Users" <gnome22-user@lists.alioth.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 11:18 AM
Subject: Re: [Gnome22-user] Some GNOME 2.2 Icons Broken


> On Wed, 2004-06-16 at 11:38, Michael G. Morey wrote:
> > James Strandboge wrote:
> >
> > >On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 15:27, Michael G. Morey wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>James Strandboge wrote:
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>>On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 10:30, Michael G. Morey wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>>All,
> > >>>>
> > >>>>I'm happily running the backport of GNOME 2.2 to Debian Woody, and
yet
> > >>>>find that some icons are broken, and so appear as [X] in the menus.
> > >>>>These include:
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Actions->Run Program
> > >>>>Actions->Screenshot
> > >>>>
> > >>>>Can anyone tell me how to determine to which packages these icon
files
> > >>>>belong?  I know only how to do the reverse, i.e., "dpkg --filelist
> > >>>><package-name>."
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>$ dpkg -S gnome-screenshot.png
> > >>>gnome-desktop-data: /usr/share/pixmaps/gnome-screenshot.png
> > >>>
> > >>>$ COLUMNS=100 dpkg -l | grep gnome-desktop-data
> > >>>ii  gnome-desktop-data  2.2.2-1woody1       Common files for GNOME 2
> > >>>desktop apps
> > >>>
> > >>>Jamie
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>Jamie,
> > >>
> > >>I reinstalled the package, although "apt-get --reinstall install
> > >>gnome-desktop-data" didn't do the trick.  I downloaded the package and
> > >>installed it using "dpkg -i gnome-desktop-data."  That "dpkg -S
> > >><filename>" will come in handy.  Thanks for the suggestions.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >
> > >You mentioned you had gnoppix installed before.  Make sure that you
have
> > >all the gnoppix packages uninstalled.  Try:
> > >
> > >COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep gnoppix
> > >
> > >(I did the gnome2.4 gnoppix packages and gave them that extension).
> > >
> > >If they aren't xfree86 packages, then remove them (use 'dpkg
> > >--force-depends --purge' to remove them).  After they are all
> > >uninstalled, do 'apt-get -f install'.  This will satisfy any dependency
> > >issues.  Logout of gnome and then back in.
> > >
> > >Also try under a new user.  If it works, it may just be that your old
> > >gnoppix (which is gnome2.4) settings are conflicting with the gnome2.2
> > >settings.  If that is the case, logout of gnome and do:
> > >
> > >killall gconfd-2
> > >mkdir $HOME/bak
> > >mv $HOME/.gnome2 $HOME/bak
> > >mv $HOME/.gconfd $HOME/bak
> > >mv $HOME/.metacity $HOME/bak
> > >mv $HOME/.nautilus $HOME/bak
> > >
> > >There may be others.  Basically, you want to get rid of all the
gnome2.4
> > >stuff.
> > >
> > >Hopefully this will fix it for you.  If not, submit
> > >$HOME/.xsession-errors.
> > >
> > >Jamie
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > Jamie,
> > Ick!  How can I
> > downgrade these to GNOME 2.2 gracefully, without inadvertently "pulling
> > the rug out from under" packages which depend on these?
>
> Basically, what I said above.  Log out of gnome and shutdown gdm.  Do
> (as root, all on one line):
>
> COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l | grep gnoppix|awk '{print $2}'|xargs -n 1 dpkg
> --purge --force-depends
>
> followed by:
> apt-get -f install
>
> Note that this is a very broad stroke and you may have some additional
> packages that need to be removed.  apt-get -f install may try to remove
> more as well, or may complain that it can't install certain packages
> because some other package depends on it (if this happens, remove the
> package that depends on it with 'dpkg --purge --force-depends').
>
> Good luck!
>
> Jamie
>
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