On 3/29/2013 3:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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... I am logged in as root > >> tried rm /tmp/ .X0-lock > ^^no space there. Realize the error now. Will repeat sans space. >> 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. Yes I did cause it said tmp is a dir so I thought I would find something there but no luck. I tried. > >> 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. so just what should appear after I type rm /tmp/.X0-lock Any output expected? > >> 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. I never got a nice neat list lie what you have above .Maybe I had another error when I tried to look in /var/log/yum.log What is the best command to use to look in here? Thanks . Have a great Easter Holiday. Bob > -- > Les Mikesell > lesmikesell at gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >