On 3/29/2013 7:41 AM, Robert Benjamin wrote: > 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.) > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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 '. tried rm /tmp/ .X0-lock gives '/tmp is a dir. Did cd /tmp/ .X0-lock and ls several files and subdirs (?) but no X0-lock. Noticed var there so cd /var and ls cd tmp got ifcfg-eth0.swp and also benjie1-HnQ9gw adjacent to the .swp BTW benjie1 is my user login. Tried again to find .X0-lock and no luck. Hope I didn't make things worse. 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. Have a GREAT Easter Holiday. Thanks so much for your patience and hlp. Greatly appreciated. We will get this to work, Right! Bob