I followed this post on AU and then downgraded back to 2.32. Then I followed a tip in a post asking me to add the gnome3 PPA to install a package dconf-settings-backend
because my settings weren't being remembered even after installing dconf-tools
and libdconf0
. Now I have the following issues:
- The time it takes from gdm login for the desktop-background to paint and the notification area icons to appear and conky to load has gotten high which wasn't the case earlier.
- Although I am connected to a network and can browse the internet, there is no network icon in my notification area.
- Although there are files in my Desktop folder, I am unable to see them except for
ls
via terminal - The buttons to close, minimize and maximize have disappeared from all windows.
- Nautilus doesn't open. When I try to open nautilus via the terminal I encounter this error:
nits@nits-workstation:~$ nautilus . Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported aborting... Aborted
I am guessing there is a package confusion with the upgrade from and downgrade back to Gnome2. Please help me fix this. Thanks.
That sounds like quite a mess. Perhaps you should just reinstall.
But there are some other things you can try:
/var/log/dpkg.log
tells you which packages were installed recently; perhaps you can use that to undo some actions.I would certainly start by removing any relevant PPAs and packages installed from them.
dpkg -l libgtk\*
will tell you which 3.0 libraries are installed; possibly by pulling outlibgtk-3-0
and related things you can force removal of "gnome 3".strace -e trace=open nautilus
will show you which libraries it's using and that might give you a clue as to which package is causing the problem.Running
synaptic
and looking at the local/obsolete section might help you find packages that aren't in your base OS and ought to be removed.