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Subject: Re: Lost my gnome3/gdm boot-time window
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From: Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2016 23:48:45 +0530
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On 04/24/16 16:17, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 11:11:19 +0530 Manish Jain <bourne.identity@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> 'pkg upgrade cups' has led to a loss of some of my gnome3 components and
>> now the gdm boot-time window has disappeared, on account of which
>> gnome-session is not starting. I would not like to reinstall the whole
>> OS, so can you now please help me with fixing this ?
> Some things you can try:
>
> 1) Does "pkg check -d -a" find anything?
>
> 2) Check the output of these commands:
>
> grep pkg /var/log/messages
> bzgrep pkg /var/log/messages.*
>
> Maybe a package was removed that shouldn't have been removed.  Try
> reinstalling it.
>
> 3) Run "pkg upgrade" to make sure you have the latest version of all
> packages.
>
>

Thanks a lot. 'pkg upgrade' did the trick.

Regards
Manish Jain