Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>
>> Absent other ideas, I might try re-installing CentOS or re-installing X.
>> I have a pretty good idea how to do the former,
>> but the latter might be harder despite, in principle, being less
>> intrusive.
>
> Reinstalling everything with xorg in its name did not help.
> I don't know how to find out what the trouble with X is.
>
>> To reinstall CentOS, I would back up things that needed backing up.
>> I would use yum to list all installed packages.
>> I would use my grub menu to select the same
>> stanza that I used to do a net-install of CentOS.
>> It might be nice to use a kickstart file, but I do not know how.
<snip>
A trick I learned last week, fighting fedora: yum reinstall \*
BE SURE to use the backslash; otherwise, it thinks you want to reinstall
the directories you're in when you issue the command.
mark
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