On 3/29/2013 7:41 AM, Robert Benjamin wrote:
On 3/28/2013 4:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Robert Benjamin benjie1@cox.net wrote:
Thought it was not a good idea to use yum remove .... but had totry. In my head I could see you asking me to try it and I should have TRIED something, not just sit here. Well, hopefully I can put those packages back as you said, tomorrow. Will look for Fraesch book. Thanks for the suggestion. Not sure if I'm at runlevel 5 .It's at whatever it was set at during the install. Never changed any settings unless told to. In the one login I only installed FF, TB, Calc Gimp etc from the Applications menu .Entered email addys and bookmarks and logged out thinking I'd be OK to get back in again. HA!
Default install would be runlevel 5, at least if you include desktop components. And your assumption that you would be able to log in again wasn't bad - you seem to have some very unusual issue that no one else has.
Having an issue that no one else has makes me feel good in a way.At least I didn't do something incredibly stupid ( that we know of yet), and on the other hand, it isn't encouraging either. Will try and add the packages I removed as you suggested and then use rm /tmp/ .X0-lock and hope it lets me log in. Bob
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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 '. tried rm /tmp/ .X0-lock gives '/tmp is a dir. Did cd /tmp/ .X0-lock and ls several files and subdirs (?) but no X0-lock. Noticed var there so cd /var and ls cd tmp got ifcfg-eth0.swp and also benjie1-HnQ9gw adjacent to the .swp BTW benjie1 is my user login. Tried again to find .X0-lock and no luck. Hope I didn't make things worse. 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. Have a GREAT Easter Holiday. Thanks so much for your patience and hlp. Greatly appreciated. We will get this to work, Right!
Bob