[NTLUG:Discuss] FC3 Gnome kaput; What now?

[John K. Taber]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terry [mailto:trryhend at gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2005 10:39 PM
> To: jktaber at charter.net; NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] FC3 Gnome kaput; What now?
> 
> On 5/5/05, John K. Taber <jktaber at charter.net> wrote:
> > I applied about 150 updates from the red button, a few at a time.
> > Someplace along the way, the Gnome desktop was damaged. The error
> > message box says "eggcups unexpectedly quit" and lets me send an
> error
> > report to Bugzilla.
> >
> > The crash occurs after I log on.
> >
> > No icon appears on the desktop, and the desktop is just a solid
> blue,
> > not the FC3 screen. In effect, the Gnome desktop is unusable. I also
> > can't log off (I still have terminal mode so I issue a shutdown).
> >
> > I was told to "yum update prelink" by the Bugzilla people, which I
> did,
> > but to no avail.
> >
> > Does anybody have suggestions? Remember, I'm a newbie so you need to
> be
> > more specific than with a pro.
> >
> > At worse I suppose I can reinstall from the FC3 disks, and just not
> > apply updates.
> >
> > Unhappy,
> >
> > John
> >
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> 
> Just did a google search that truned up some info:
> From:
> http://www.marcanoonline.com/plog/archives/1/200411
> 
> Errors after a massive Fedora Core 3 errata updates
> 23 November, 2004 5:45 pm - Categories: Linux
> 
> After experiencing a lot of errors starting programs when a GNOME
> session is started (no background is shown and a lot of panel applets
> crashes) after doing a massive update of all the erratas for Fedora
> Core 3, I solved them executing a full prelink of the system, with the
> following command:
> 
> /usr/sbin/prelink -af
> 
> This force the prelink of all the binaries located on the directories
> defined in the file /etc/prelink.conf, ignoring if there is data on
> the prelink cache

Bless you, Terry, that did it. I guess Bugzilla forgot to tell me to
re-prelink.

A couple of points in case somebody else needs to re-prelink:

1. doing /usr/sbin/prelink -af results in numerous messages about
unresolved dependencies. I captured a list of these msgs just in case
but it looks like they can be ignored. 

2. after re-prelink, don't shutdown in a terminal window. I tried and
FC3 looped endlessly. I don't know if this works but I suggest
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to a logon screen, log in as root, then shutdown.

Happier,

John