Reinstall GNOME and GTK+2

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Irishwhistle

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I was trying to get a Mac Menu applet installed to GNOME and GNOME crashed. I powered down the comp and GNOME still didn't work. Thanks to Rambo I have Enlightenment installed on my computer so I can at least use that, but I want GNOME back. Also I think something got messed up with GTK. Does anyone know how to reinstall GNOME and GTK? Please Help, Thank you.

~Jordan
 
we need to determine the cause of the crash, but ultimately you can boot off the Linux CD you have and do a repair install. This is probably the easiest way of accomplishing that.
 
it depends on how much you botched gnome and X, so it is hard to say. Did you create back ups of any files that you modified?
 
JordanII said:
No I did not, All I did was add code and install some .debs.
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Depending on what crashed Gnome, and or X depends on the severity of the problem. Whenever modifying anything make a back up of the original and put it somewhere just incase things like this happen.

How exactly does it crash? Is there an error message?
 
well I am not familar with the package you installed, but can only assume that it edited something in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file in X server but I can't be sure. A lot of gui add ons will modify that file. If you hit ctrl + alt + F1 you should get tossed over to a virtual terminal that runs in the background of Linux.

From there you can try to edit what you have added, but at this point since I have no idea there is not much I can help with unfortunately. You can try some basic things like running fsck -fy or something like that to see if its just file corruption causing the problems.
 
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