On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:06:54 -0800 Robert Miesen <[email protected]> dijo:
>Have you checked to see if you still have gnome installed? When you >uninstalled Rythmbox and Virtualbox from your system, your RPM package >manager might have removed gnome with those packages...especially if it was >an automatically-installed package (or whatever the RPM equivalent is). If >you still have gnome installed as stated by your package manager, it might >be a good idea to reinstall it, as some shared files might have been >clobbered when either removing Rythmbox and Virtualbox or when installing >Virtualbox OSE. Wes suggested the same thing, and it also occurred to me. In the Debian world I would just open Synaptic, select Gnome and all its components and mark them for Reinstall. In Fedora I have two GUIs: Add/Remove Software and Yumex, the latter being a bit more featureful, although it throws up a little popup every so often saying it can't get a lock - even if started right after rebooting. I ignore the popup and it seems to work fine. However, neither gives me a "reinstall" option. I can uninstall, and I can install. Uninstalling Gnome wants to uninstall a very long and scary list of other packages, including things like gdm. I don't want to end up unable to log in. Maybe it would be safer to do this from Xfce. (Having been through this four times before, one of the first things I did was install Xfce and take it for a spin to make sure I had a desktop I could log in to.) I am not very familiar with yum at the command line yet. Perhaps that would be a better way to "reinstall." _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
