On 3/29/2013 3:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
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... I am logged in as root
tried rm /tmp/ .X0-lock
^^no space there. Realize the error now. Will repeat sans space.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.
Yes I did cause it said tmp is a dir so I thought I would find something there but no luck. I tried.
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.
so just what should appear after I type rm /tmp/.X0-lock Any output expected?
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.
I never got a nice neat list lie what you have above .Maybe I had another error when I tried to look in /var/log/yum.log What is the best command to use to look in here? Thanks . Have a great Easter Holiday. Bob
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