Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 214939
many problems after upgrade of gnome-panel
Last modified: 2008-03-18 14:40:51 EDT
Description of problem: after upgrading gnome-panel I experience the following problems 1) the panel was partly ruined -position wrong -some tasks gone 2) most icons in the "main menu" drop down menu's are not showing 3) screen background is gone. trying to restore it gives a window which crashes when it tries to read the available wall-papers Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.16.1-1.fc6 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1.update gnome-panel 2. 3. Actual results: see above Expected results: good panel, show icons in menu and show background Additional info:
Yes, i confirm that. After the update and a system restart the panels are deactivated and irreparable configured. Additionally there is the power management error and a crash as soon as the background image is changed.
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Found the problem : somewhere in the process the package metacity was corrupted Solution : get the metacity-2.16.0-5.fc6.i386.rpm and reinstall it with: rpm --force --upgrade metacity-2.16.0-5.fc6.i386.rpm No idea what caused the corruption.
I downloaded "metacity-2.16.0-5.fc6.i386.rpm" from the Core Repository and successfully installed it with "rpm --force --upgrade metacity-2.16.0-5.fc6.i386.rpm". A restart of the system did not bring any success, the problem is still persistent.
I solved the problem by removing the complete Gnome group with yum and the window manager Fluxbox and Yum Gui pirut respectively. Then "yum install gnome-panel pirut gdm", resolve dependencies, restart X and the Gnome desktop was usable again although all programs like e.g. OpenOffice had to be reinstalled.
Hi, We no longer support Fedora Core 6 and I am currently trying to get my open bug count down to a more manageable state. I'm going to close this bug as WONTFIX. If this issue is still a concern for you, would you mind trying to reproduce on a supported version of Fedora and reopening? (this is a mass message)