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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 07:14:51AM -0400, alvaro wrote:
> I lost  some  of the gnome icons !
> here's how, hope someone can explain to me what happened!
> 
> xchat2 was segfaulting, so i dispelled and casted xchat. I was inside KDE 
> at 
> the time.
> 
> xchat is not in the grimoire anymore, but it was still in the cache. In the 
> process, a few things got dispelled (why?), in particular gnome-panel and 
> gnome-session.
> 
> I was the told how to solve the xchat issue, so i dispelled xchat and 
> casted 
> xchat2 again. I'm still in kde.
> 
> since the dispelling of gnome-session was wierd, i logged into gnome. And 
> it 
> doesnt start gnome2. Whatever i got into looked exactly like gnome1.4 
> (including sawfish wm)
> 
> i exited X, casted gnome-session and gnome-desktop, start gnome again. Now 
> it 
> starts gnome2, metacity, etc. But the gnome-terminal and exit-session icons 
> are gone and i get error messages accordingly.
> It turns out that gnome-terminal is missing!, so i cast gnome-terminal, 
> cast 
> the desktop-profile again. Then i log into gnome, the terminal is there, 
> but 
> the exit-session the gnome (foot) and a world icon are missing (at least 
> those).
> I'm also getting a few things broken on a cast --fix
> gnomexmms is broken
> later it dispels once more gnome-session/panel/terminal...
> 
> 
> I dont think this qualifies as a bug, since the xchat spell isnt there 
> anymore... but yet, why does dispelling xchat2, and casting xchat would 
> mess 
> things so much?, libraries are supposed to be compatible.
I guess the problem is, xchat once depended on gnome-core (which should
have been gnome-libs) which conflicts with gnome-session/gnome-panel.
Probably the dependency on gnome-core is still in your
/var/state/sorcery/depends (that happened here so a sorcery rebuild
dispelled gnome2 and got me gnome1 back :)
I did edit /var/state/sorcery/depends and removed all lines which
mentioned gnome-core, that fixed it here.

As to the icons, i'm not sure, you could try recompiling the gnome2
stuff.

Hope this explains some of the weirdness you experienced :)

--
Arwed
aka alley_cat