On 3/28/2013 4:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> wrote: >> Thought it was not a good idea to use yum remove .... but had to >> try. 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 (At the center of a black hole is a man with a flashlight, running around looking for a circuit breaker.)