Bug 200466

Summary:	Gnome Desktop not available
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.2	Reporter:	Andreas Schlehahn <linuxdreas>
Component:	GNOME	Assignee:	Joe Hargadon <jhargadon>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	andreas.hanke, david.wright, suse-beta
Version:	Alpha 3
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	Other
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Description Andreas Schlehahn 2006-08-19 07:07:44 UTC

After a standard installation with both KDE and Gnome selected (KDE as standard desktop) The Gnome Session is not listed in KDM in the sessions list. It shows:

Custom
FVWM
IceWM
KDE
MWM
TWM
Failsafe

I actually installed alpha 3 twice because I thought perhaps I messed the installation up the first time. But after the second time I still don't have Gnome. Not a big loss, but I'd like to at least check out what changed from 2.12 to pre-2.16.

Comment 1 Andreas Schlehahn 2006-08-22 05:43:30 UTC

I found a quick (and surprisingly simple) workaround:
After creating a symlink for /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome in /usr/bin I have GNOME in the list of available desktop sessions and I can log in.

andreas@HAL9001:~/Documents> cd /usr/bin
andreas@HAL9001:/usr/bin> ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/gnome

Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2006-08-25 13:34:52 UTC

*** Bug 201444 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Stephan Binner 2006-08-25 18:50:31 UTC

Fix submitted. Please keep your packages working on the distribution.