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FS#11384 - Default GNOME after installing from the latest CD doesn't work correctly

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Matěj Týč (bubla) - Wednesday, 03 September 2008, 09:10 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 06 September 2008, 07:46 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The default GNOME starts in a very ugly form, you can see the screenshot.
Among other things, the desktop background is set to display an image, but no image is there, just a bg colour. And widgets look very ugly, too. I have read about gnome in the wiki, I think that I couldn't have spoiled anything. Any ideas what could go wrong here?
Any ideas?

Additional info:
* package version(s)
latest versions of all
* config and/or log files etc.
Every setting is the default one. What logs can provide useful info?

Steps to reproduce:
Install GNOME using: pacman -S gnome gnome-extra
   Screenshot.png (22.5 KiB)
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Saturday, 06 September 2008, 07:46 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Matěj Týč (bubla) - Wednesday, 03 September 2008, 09:57 GMT
I add one screenshot more, where you can see that some windows are very ugly, but the appearence window looks nice. I don't understand that. Moreover, I have forgot to mention that sometimes I also get this error:
Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error from Bonobo when attempting to locate the factory. Killing bonobo-activation-server and restarting Nautilus may help fix the problem.
I have the date set correctly, though...
   Screenshot-1.png (47 KiB)
Comment by Kenneth (ks1) - Thursday, 04 September 2008, 14:04 GMT
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome

Please see this wiki. Also make sure you have dbus and hal in your DAEMONS=() array in /etc/rc.conf
Comment by Matěj Týč (bubla) - Friday, 05 September 2008, 20:53 GMT
I have fixed this by choosing different mirror and running pacman -Rn --nodeps gnome gnome-extra ; pacman -Sy gnome gnome-extra
I have read the wiki page before and even hal and dbus were running. I still don't have any idea what was wrong though...
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 06 September 2008, 07:46 GMT
there's no such thing as "Default GNOME after installing from the latest CD" in Arch. :-)
Maybe you didn't run pacman -Syu before installing Gnome?
I have no idea how this could happen, but it doesn't seem like a packaging bug.

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