[CentOS] [SOLVED] CentOS-5.4 Update?

On Thu, October 22, 2009 15:34, James B. Byrne wrote:

hdwr HPQ DC7700S ix86 Core Duo

I have just updated this CentOS-5.3 box to 5.4. This process was not satisfactory.

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I would like to get my previous customised desktops back, but first I would like to get the default to display. Are there any ideas on how to proceed?

On a hunch I did a 'yum list gno* | more' and discovered that gnome-session was not installed. Installing gnome-session, as you may imagine, solved the problem of the missing desktops.

Now the question is: how it is that an update can remove the gnome-session package without first installing its replacement, if indeed gnome-session was part of the update at all?

Sincerely,