On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 03:45 -0500, fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 03:41:34 -0500 > From: Ed Gurski <ed@xxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Lost Gnome after upgrade to Kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <1166517695.2590.12.camel@eagfd00p> > Content-Type: text/plain > > I updated to Kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 and now I no longer have Gnome. My > login screen no longer lists Gnome as an option. I was able to logon > into KDE and saw that Gnome was unchecked with Software updater? I ran > rpm -qa | grep gnome and saw the packages installed, but the Software > updater says otherwise. > > On my other systems (4) I was able to install the new kernel without the > same problem... I also noticed that if I ran rpm -qa |grep gnome-d | wc > -l the working systems have 54 packages and the fouled-up system only > has 38.. Has anyone else experienced this? > > I let the Software Update install Gnome again and will restart the GUI. > SOLVED Well re-installing GNOME solved the problem, but I'm stil not sure what caused it in the first place......