Hi, I am having a puzzling experience with the following setting: GNOME desktop with enlightenment as window manager (set using the WINDOW_MANAGER environment variable from within .xinitrc). The experience goes as follows: Everything works as advertised until I upgrade some GNOME components, namely gtk2 (from 2.12.1_0 to 2.12.2_0+x11), cairo (from 1.4.10_0 to 1.4.12_0), and glib2 (from 2.14.3_0 to 2.14.4_1). After the upgrade the GNOME desktop refuses to show up (there is a delay, then the GNOME splash screen appears briefly together with a dialogue that does not show anything, then nothing else happens). Nothing shows in the logs. A ps shows gnome-session, bonobo-activation, gconf-2, gnome-vfs, and e16. What I have done to attempt to pinpoint the problem: e16 alone works fine as desktop manager; changing the GNOME window manager from e16 to metacity or even quartz-wm does not change anything; deactivating the offending packages one by one and activating their old versions does not fix anything (unless all three are reverted to the old versions--when this happens everything begins to work all of a sudden). I am almost sure (given past experiences) that I have to rebuild some dependencies of these packages, but I cannot figure out which ones. Any hint is appreciated. Many thanks in advance, Stefan P.S. Does anybody have any experience with GNOME+enlightenment+firefox-x11 working (or not) under 10.5? I really want to upgrade but this is my production machine and I am afraid of potential issues.