On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1 at cox.net> wrote: > > 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 '. You need to do most of this as root. Carefully... > tried rm /tmp/ .X0-lock ^^no space there. > gives '/tmp is a dir. The shell breaks commands on white space. > Did cd /tmp/ .X0-lock and ls several files and subdirs (?) but no > X0-lock You actually did a cd /tmp. > Tried again to find .X0-lock and no luck. Hope I didn't make > things worse. Your are looking for /tmp/.X0-lock. Another convention is that files starting with a . are 'hidden' in the sense that ls will omit them unless you use the -a option. > 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. Your yum remove command may also have been interpreted oddly if you had the space after /tmp. Normally you would just give the base package name to install, stopping before the -version-number part. For example if your log says yum removed gnome-disk-utility.i686 0:2.30.1-2.el6 you would get it back with yum install gnome-disk-utility. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com