On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Robert Benjamin benjie1@cox.net wrote:
looked in /var/log/yum.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log permission denied chmod a+x OK got list of time stamped and at bottom I tried yum install one of the items there. Got 'no package name '.
You need to do most of this as root. Carefully...
tried rm /tmp/ .X0-lock
^^no space there.
gives '/tmp is a dir.
The shell breaks commands on white space.
Did cd /tmp/ .X0-lock and ls several files and subdirs (?) but no X0-lock
You actually did a cd /tmp.
Tried again to find .X0-lock and no luck. Hope I didn't make things worse.
Your are looking for /tmp/.X0-lock. Another convention is that files starting with a . are 'hidden' in the sense that ls will omit them unless you use the -a option.
Yum update said no packages set for install and yum install (from time stamped items) said 'no package available' with the name and numbers from a time stamped line picked at random.
Your yum remove command may also have been interpreted oddly if you had the space after /tmp. Normally you would just give the base package name to install, stopping before the -version-number part. For example if your log says yum removed gnome-disk-utility.i686 0:2.30.1-2.el6 you would get it back with yum install gnome-disk-utility.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com