[CentOS] baby blue screen of permanent death

Rob Kampen rkampen at kampensonline.com
Sat Oct 26 19:07:19 UTC 2013


On 10/27/2013 07:03 AM, 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.
>
> My understand is that unistalling X will
> normally take all its dependents will it.
> That means That I will have to re-install said dependents,
> possibly listing each one separately.
> My thought is to /usr/bin/script yum's output into a file.
> I'd use the file to produce another yum commmand to reinstall X's dependents.
> Does that seem like a good plan?
>
> 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.
>
> After the install,
> I would restore the directory that listed all my repositories.
> This is a step I am not sure about.
> I have a vague recollection that that is not sufficient.
> What else would I need to do?
> I would use the yum listing to install everything I have now.
> Does this seem like a good plan?
Way too much work.
Why not yum reinstall <package names>
That will ensure that all package contents are correctly installed......??



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