[CentOS] groupinstall X error

Thu Dec 7 02:08:32 UTC 2006
Karl R. Balsmeier <karl at klxsystems.net>

Gavin Carr wrote:

>On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 05:54:27PM -0800, Karl R. Balsmeier wrote:
>  
>
>>hey, any way I can install X onto the 'minimal build' via yum? 
>>
>>I'd just reinstall, but am working with a 2TB system and it would take 
>>hours to re-do.  Just curious...
>>
>>yum install  __________________
>>    
>>
>
>Sure:
>
>  yum groupinstall "X Window System"
>
>and perhaps:
>
>  yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
>  yum groupinstall "KDE (K Desktop Environment)"
>
>to taste.
>
>Cheers,
>Gavin
>  
>

thanks alot, -figured as much -looks like an error in the file at end of 
this paste...

[root at devbox02 src]# yum groupinstall "X Window System"
Setting up Group Process
Setting up repositories
update                    100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
---snip---
Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
Downloading header for system-config-packages to pack into transaction set.
system-config-packages-1. 100% |=========================|  22 kB    00:00
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in ?
    yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 138, in main
    (result, resultmsgs) = base.buildTransaction()
  File "__init__.py", line 343, in buildTransaction
  File "depsolve.py", line 211, in resolveDeps
  File "depsolve.py", line 176, in populateTs
  File "depsolve.py", line 108, in allowedMultipleInstalls
  File "packages.py", line 366, in getProvidesNames
  File "sqlitesack.py", line 74, in returnPrco
  File "sqlitesack.py", line 147, in getPrco
  File 
"/var/tmp/python-sqlite-root//usr/lib64/python2.3/site-packages/sqlite/main.py", 
line 255, in execute
_sqlite.DatabaseError: database disk image is malformed

hmmm.  wonder how to fix that.  just did a yum update prior to this, so 
python *should* be happy.

-krb

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