[lightning slinger]

I urge extreme caution if you are thinking about running an update via synaptic at the present time!!
Running an update a few minutes ago and noticed gnome-panel,gnome-power-manager and gnome-session were all marked for removal with any replacements been installed!
Ignoring those details and letting synaptic do so will present you with grave problems.
Do not update until someones provides an explanation!

[xops]

Too Late! I ran the morning update already. I am trapped in an endless loop of "This tool allows you to configure 3D desktop effects" followed by a demand to re-login or reboot followed by......

Frustration quotient going up and satisfaction level going down. I have had to re-install twice this year already.

Running a dual boot with winblows just so I can resurrect my system from the latest experiment with PCLOS is starting to wear thin. So is re-installing from CD.

I don't even want to think about gnome3.

[Dragynn]

yikes.

Please post this in the main forum, so maybe it will get addressed. My first thought would be that gnome 3 packages would be replacing those, but since I don't update, I couldn't even look and tell you if they are there yet, I only use my own repo now.

Backup your installs guys, I would run a mylivecd re-master weekly if you insist on updating. Keep docs, music, movies etc. on a separate partition or hard-drive, a small re-master only takes ten minutes to re-install.

*edit* Looks like LS already reported it, supposedly fixed on PASS server.

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su to root

apt-get update 
apt-get dist-upgrade
apt-get install gnome-session gnome-panel gnome-power-manager   (and maybe  some other gnome packages)

reboot

[lightning slinger]

The problem has now been addressed and the heanet mirror has the corrected updates, however your selected repo may be slower than heanet in syncing so I urge users to check that synaptic does not want to delete any gnome files before hitting the apply button!

[Dragynn]

From Texstar's Twitter:

iluvpclinuxos pclinuxos
Fixed some Gnome cr*p I broke earlier this morning.
1 hour ago

[Dragynn]

And what the hell is wrong with Gnome terminal? It is acting all stupid and won't start.
1 hour ago

and now he got the gnome terminal bug i'm rolling on the floor over here

[xops]

I can only login via failsafe and then apt-get upgrade can't resolve "pclinuxfiles.com". EDIT: and no network.

Anybody got a CLI fix?

EDIT UPDATE:
Actually, the answer is in my question.

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/etc/rc.d/init.d/network   start

Then all the apt-get works. All is fine.

For a while there, MINT was looking pretty good.

Thanks for putting up with my rant.

[ka9yhd]

For a while there, MINT was looking pretty good.

Cool sucking on a mint does freshen the breath....

[xops]

I see where Synaptic wants to "upgrade" Firefox, GTK+2.0, Gnome Terminal and about 24 lib's. If you don't hear from me again, you'll know what happened. -Keeping the faith-

UPDATE: Good News! I updated, including some of that "Gnome cr**p" as Texstar calls it, and my installation survived!