[CentOS] HP nw8240 xorg failing after update

Wed Dec 13 08:38:19 UTC 2006
Ian Harper <idharper at gmail.com>

Looks like the problem started around the same time xorg was upgraded
to 6.8.2 - looks like I need to go back to 6.8.0  :(((

ho hum.

thanks for the pointer

Ian

On 12/12/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 08:41 +0000, Ian Harper wrote:
> > having had centos running fineon my nw8240 laptop I recently decided
> > to try doing an update, now X wont start up - its keep reporting
> > problems with various gnome libraries missing, if I look in /usr/lib
> > there are some links to files that no longer exist or are different
> > versions i.e. libgnomecanvase-2.so.0 instead of libgnomecanvas-2.so.
> >
> > Is there a simple method of rolling back ? or of getting the ati
> > driver and gnome to work again ?
>
> updating doesn't normally make files go away ... how (what) did you
> update?  Do you have repositories other than the CentOS base ones
> enabled?
>
> If you want to roll back, you can use the command:
>
> rpm -qa --last > rpms.last
>
> you can edit rpms.last and see which RPMS were installed (in reverse
> date order) and reinstall the ones that you would like to reinstall.
>
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