[Techtalk] mandrake 9.2 boot and GNOME

[Mandi]

On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, iriXx wrote:

> hi all
> 
> just wondering if anyone's tried mandrake 9.2 yet.....
> i upgraded from 8.2, yeah, pretty old and tired, and all seem fine 
> except there are some odd glitches.
> the boot script spits out some strange errors, like help messages when 
> you've passed the wrong option...
> and then i logged in and chose GNOME and there are no 
> words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! only icons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
> no words on any of the menus on any programs. so its unusable. 
> enlightenment works, fortunatley.
> havent tried kde yet.
> 

you could try deleting your .gnome directory in your homedir.  there may 
be some changes in the options files...