On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Michael Hennebry hennebry@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu wrote:
On Sat, 26 Oct 2013, 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.
Reinstalling everything with xorg in its name did not help. I don't know how to find out what the trouble with X is.
Well, you can probably uninstall X doing
yum groupremove 'X Window System'
But, since I am late in the show I dunno what's the deal with X11 that is causing you such suffering.
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?
Is there a command that I could use to record the repositories I am using and restore them after the install?
IMHO, you could just copy/tar the /etc/yum.repos.d/ and then bring it back in the new install in one way or another.
I would use the yum listing to install everything I have now. Does this seem like a good plan?
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