tmckellar
October 31st, 2009, 03:34 AM
Should have known it was too good to be true. I remember how in the old days it sucked beyond belief trying to upgrade from 5.04 to 5.10 or 5.10 to 6.06. I thought those days were gone after seeing how easily everything for Karmic downloaded and installed. Then I rebooted.
So here is what is happening. My problem seems to be in between what most other people are reporting. Grub works like a charm. I can login no problem. Then it just stops. I can see my background but there isn't a gnome-panel in sight and can't see the files on my desktop. Being a Gnome-do user I am able to get a terminal open and poke around, start Firefox, and even start up gnome-panel and nautilus. However when I fire up the latter two there are no icons and items in my main menu are missing. Played with gnome-appearance-properties and it tells me none of the icon theme packs are installed.
I can log into Kde and get the bar there but still no actual desktop. Failsafe Gnome has been the only thing to yield a different result so far. Everything works 100% in Failsafe Gnome. Not even logging in as root in recovery mode could do anything better.
I am assuming there is a log file somewhere or some info in something that may be pertinent to my problem. If anyone can give me a clue as to where to look or what may be going on it is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
So here is what is happening. My problem seems to be in between what most other people are reporting. Grub works like a charm. I can login no problem. Then it just stops. I can see my background but there isn't a gnome-panel in sight and can't see the files on my desktop. Being a Gnome-do user I am able to get a terminal open and poke around, start Firefox, and even start up gnome-panel and nautilus. However when I fire up the latter two there are no icons and items in my main menu are missing. Played with gnome-appearance-properties and it tells me none of the icon theme packs are installed.
I can log into Kde and get the bar there but still no actual desktop. Failsafe Gnome has been the only thing to yield a different result so far. Everything works 100% in Failsafe Gnome. Not even logging in as root in recovery mode could do anything better.
I am assuming there is a log file somewhere or some info in something that may be pertinent to my problem. If anyone can give me a clue as to where to look or what may be going on it is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.