No, no, just go into rpmdrake or kpackage or whatever and re-install
those two packges. Don't re-install the whole system. Don't even
re-install the X server, just the base X package.
Shouldn't over-write anything important other than your XF86Config, and
might not even over-write that, depending on where you keep it.
Or, to do this the old-fashioned way (the way I did it),
Go to your cdrom drive and then
[save your XF86Config someplace safe]
cd Mandrake/RPMS
rpm -U --force XFree86-3.3.6-4mdk.i586.rpm
rpm -U -force XFree86-xfs-3.3.6-4mdk.i586.rpm
[restore XF86Config]
Truth to tell, I'm not sure if you need to re-install the former
package, but I did so I know it'll work.
ON THE OTHER HAND, if you didn't go into /tmp, then I could be barking
up the wrong tree. Still, it's worth a try, methinks.
On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Brian wrote:
| > You probably deleted files from /tmp.
| >
| > Owing to a Mandrake bug that civilme recently diagnosed based on my
| > trouble report, this can cause trouble.
| >
| > The only known fix is to re-install X and the X font server.
|
| Wow! I just reported the same problem to the newbie list. I'm sure I
| didn't go into /tmp consciously.
|
| OK, if I install, I guess I uncheck everything except X and its font
| server (assuming that is listed). What parts of my configuration are
| likely to get overwritten?
|
| Lane
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| Lane Lester / Madison County, Georgia USA
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