On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:32 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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 > yum -y groupinstall "gnome desktop environment" _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
