On Sat, 04 Nov 2006 18:18:23 -0600 Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-04 at 15:51 -0800, Norm wrote: > > Had this happen to me when I ran Smart on a FC5 box. Dumb move > > Smart decided to remove every instance of Gnome and related dep. I > > probably could have/should have reinstalled Gnome but, in my case > > as my Linux box is actually a test box the simplest move was to do > > a reinstall. I have looked at the smart home site > > (http://labix.org/smart)and can not find a reference to a gnome > > interface but there are a couple to a kde interface. At a guess I > > would say that Smart is not intended to work with gnome. > > On Sat, 04 Nov > > 2006 17:33:13 -0600 Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > My experience with FC6 is getting worse and worse. I had the > > > machine coming up in GNOMe. The system offer end me some updates > > > some of which I chose. > > > > > > Now the machine comes up In KDE. Neither the Sessions option not > > > the Deskswitcher Tool will allow me to choose GNOME as my > > > desktop. What do I do now? > > > Except I did not sun smart and I can still see the GNOME. A key > question is where is DISPLAYMANAGER used in /etc/X!!/prefdm set am@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > My guess is something similar happened to you, If your heart is set on running Gnome try reinstalling several key pieces of Gnome and see if they show up.