axi0n
March 19th, 2010, 10:27 PM
I found this via the long waaaay around... I originally patched some 10.04 .debs onto 9.10 (ProFTPd and OpenSSH) to pass some security audits @ work... Then had to fufill some other dependencies to get them installed...
Finally worked but needless to say it broke a lot of other things on the system...
After 10+ hrs of fumbling through logs, etc, I think I have discovered an unresolved dependency check...
I dowloaded the latest daily Lucid ISO i386, managed to patch the system mostly via apt-get -f install after adding the cd to my sources.list
On reboot, I would be presented with the GDM login screen but when I clicked on a user and entered a password.. it would look like it was logging in, then kick me straight back out to the login screen...
Looking at the logs, I eventually figured I would attempt to re-install the complaining packages with....
sudo apt-get install xxx --reinstall --force-yes
I had done a bunch when I tried to re-install gnome... It was already installed but said it couldn't re-install because of a missing dependency... Empathy...
sudo apt-get install empathy
It also had a recommendation to install "gnome-desktop-environment" (well duh.. ) ;-)
Installed that... Plus the bonus 112Mb of dependency packages, and now I am fully into the system GUI...
Hope this helps...
Cheers,
Ax.
Finally worked but needless to say it broke a lot of other things on the system...
After 10+ hrs of fumbling through logs, etc, I think I have discovered an unresolved dependency check...
I dowloaded the latest daily Lucid ISO i386, managed to patch the system mostly via apt-get -f install after adding the cd to my sources.list
On reboot, I would be presented with the GDM login screen but when I clicked on a user and entered a password.. it would look like it was logging in, then kick me straight back out to the login screen...
Looking at the logs, I eventually figured I would attempt to re-install the complaining packages with....
sudo apt-get install xxx --reinstall --force-yes
I had done a bunch when I tried to re-install gnome... It was already installed but said it couldn't re-install because of a missing dependency... Empathy...
sudo apt-get install empathy
It also had a recommendation to install "gnome-desktop-environment" (well duh.. ) ;-)
Installed that... Plus the bonus 112Mb of dependency packages, and now I am fully into the system GUI...
Hope this helps...
Cheers,
Ax.