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. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > >