Hi,<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/24/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Josselin Mouette</b> <<a href="mailto:joss@debian.org">joss@debian.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Le vendredi 23 septembre 2005 à 16:24 -0700, Bill Dugan a écrit :<br>> Package: Gnome<br><br>This report is useless, we don't even know which version you are trying<br>to install.</blockquote><div><br>
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Sorry, I am new. I had hoped the bug report would be useful
because I thought an aptitude upgrade performed on a given date would
update everyone worldwide to a known version of all installed packages.<br>
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dpkg says the Gnome 2 session manager is version 2.8.1-6<br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> Question<br>> The "Show Desktop" applet appears to have died unexpectedly. Do you
<br>> want to reload this applet? (If you choose not to reload it at this<br>> time you can always add it by right clicking on the panel and clicking<br>> on the "Add to Panel" submenu.) OK / Cancel<br>
><br>Which version of gnome-applets are you using, and at what version of the<br>libraries it depends on?</blockquote><div><br>
dpkg says gnome-applets is 2.8.2-3<br>
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As for the dependencies, "dpkg -s gnome-applets" outputs:<br>
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Package: gnome-applets<br>
Status: install ok installed<br>
Priority: optional<br>
Section: gnome<br>
Installed-Size: 1216<br>
Maintainer: Marc Dequènes (Duck) <<a href="mailto:Duck@DuckCorp.org">Duck@DuckCorp.org</a>><br>
Architecture: i386<br>
Version: 2.8.2-3<br>
Replaces: gnome-panel-data (<= 2.2.2.2-2)<br>
Depends: libapm1 (>= 3.2.0-7), libart-2.0-2 (>= 2.3.16),
libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.7.2), libbonobo2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libbonoboui2-0
(>= 2.5.4), libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-21), libgail-common (>=
1.6.6), libgail17 (>= 1.6.6), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.8.1),
libgcrypt11, libglade2-0 (>= 1:2.4.2-2), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0),
libgnome2-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomecanvas2-0 (>= 2.6.0),
libgnomeui-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgnomevfs2-0 (>= 2.8.3-7), libgnutls11
(>= 1.0.16), libgstreamer-plugins0.8-0 (>= 0.8.0),
libgstreamer0.8-0 (>= 0.8.9-1), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.6.0),
libgtop2-2, libice6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), liborbit2 (>=
1:2.10.0), libpanel-applet2-0 (>= 2.8.3), libpango1.0-0 (>=
1.8.1), libpopt0 (>= 1.7), libsm6 | xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libx11-6
| xlibs (>> 4.1.0), libxklavier8, libxml2 (>= 2.6.16), zlib1g
(>= 1:1.2.1), gnome-applets-data (= 2.8.2-3), gnome-panel (>=
2.8.2-1), gstreamer0.8-oss | gstreamer0.8-audiosink<br>
Recommends: imagemagick, gnome-system-monitor, gnome-media<br>
Conflicts: gnome-applets2, quicklaunch-applet, gnotes, sound-monitor, battstat-applet, gswitchit<br>
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</div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">> After this happened the first time, I nuked the hard disk and started<br>> over with a sarge installation from CD, then did the aptitude upgrade
<br>> as above and the same thing happened again.<br><br>Of course it happened again. If you do exactly twice the same thing, the<br>computer does exactly twice the same thing.</blockquote><div><br>
</div></div>Sorry for the weak bug report; please let me know if there's any more information that might be useful.<br>
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The system is a 500MHz Celeron, 96MB RAM.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Bill<br>
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