On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:58:39 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>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." I should also add that it is interesting that I had installed Virtualbox from Sun yesterday and had no problem with Gnome. But that version of Virtualbox gave me so much grief getting the vbox kernel module installed that I finally gave up on it. I uninstalled it and installed the OSE version instead (which "just works"). The OSE version is from the fusion repo. The About screen says it is 3.0.10_OSE r5409. Also, while fixing the problem is a primary concern, it would be awesome if I could figure out the exact cause. I haven't filed any bug reports about this because, from past experience, I know the response will be "unable to reproduce." But now I finally have a serious suspect. Not enough evidence yet to arrest the dude, but more than sufficient to get a search warrant. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
