GNOME won't boot

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 30 June 2006 20:35, dragontale wrote:
> I just woke up from bed and I'm ready.
>
> > To Gordon Messmer,
>
> I typed in ldd /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 as you said above and it brought down
> a list:
>
> linux-gate.so.1
> libgconf-2.so.4
> libobject-2.0.so.0
> libORBit-2.so.0
> libm.so.6
> libgmodule-2.0.s0.0
> libdl.so.2
> libgthread-2.0.so.0
> libglib-2.0.so.0
> libpthread.so.0
> libc.so.6
> libpopt.so.0
> /lib/ld-linux.so.2
>
> ^ I got the above list. I'm not sure if it's missing a library or not. I
> also tried running gconfd-2, but I don't know how. Here is what I tried to
> do to run gconfd-2. I got into the directory /usrlibexec and typed in
> gconfd-2 but it said command not found. Maybe it can run it's just that I
> don't know the syntax command for it.

I'm looking in FC2's files at the mo, as I havn't got anything later booted up 
at the moment. gconfd-1 is in /usr/bin . FC is a bit funny about having to 
set full pathways. I'd try /usr/bin/gconfd-2.

Although, I think you are going to have to try to reinstall the libglade 
library that you've done a Homer on.

Nigel.
>
> > To Todd Zullinger,
>
> So libglade is not part of Glade Interface Designer and that it needs gnome
> to function properly? Holy crap........I think I DID uninstall it. On my
> previous post, I forgot to include the following command to uninstall glade
> interface designer's files. Here is a description of what I would do to
> uninstall rpm files.
>
> rpm -e asdf
> or
> rpm -e --nodeps asdf
>
> ^ As you see above, that's what I would do to uninstall rpm files. But
> again, I'm pretty sure that I uninstalled libglade-2.0.so.0 because I can't
> find it anywhere on my computer. I uninstalled it because I thought
> libglade was apart of glade interface and that it had the word "Glade" in
> it, yea sounds stupid that's why I uninstalled it.
>
> I also did remember seeing about 100 dependencies when I tried to uninstall
> some files from glade interface. When I saw those 100 dependency files, I
> knew that I couldn't remove them and so I forced that file to be
> uninstalled and leaving out the dependency files and I did it with the
> following command:
>
> rpm -e --nodeps libglade-2.0.so.0
>
> > To Jim Cornette,
>
> You said libglade provides a library for system-confg-securitylevel. Yea
> that's what I thought too. I'm pretty sure I delete libglade and libglade2
> because I tried to search for it with the following command:
>
> $ rpm -qV libglade
> $ rpm -qV libglade2
>
> ^ I typed the above and got nothing. Here is what I got when I typed in the
> following:
>
> $ rpm -qa | grep -i libglade
>
> ^ After typing the above command, I recieved the following files:
>
> libglade2-devel-2.5.1-2
> pygtk2-libglade-2.6.0-2
>
> The above list is what I got.
>
> and yes I read through the files from the official website, I researched on
> what files the programs contain then that's when I uninstall them. I
> thought I had all the information that I had to uninstall Glade Interface
> Designer, but I guess not this time.
>
> You suggested that I should reinstall libglade? I think that will be a good
> idea. I wouldn't want to do a fresh installment because then I would have
> to setup the internet and stuff and configure everything again which is a
> major headache.
>
> As of this moment, the only thing I'm trying to do is reinstalling
> libglade, but not sure how to. My internet light(router) is on but I'm not
> logged in so I can't download any files online. Is there any way to get
> back libglade?
>
> I hope I followed up on all of your responses, if I missed out on something
> please let me know.
>
>
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