[Yum] Life in "interesting" times...

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Dec 8 14:48:58 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 10:34 -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote:
> OK, so my laptop tried to update in FC2, and ran out of space in the
> middle of updating OO and its gtk/x dependencies.  I discovered the
> problem, cleared some space ugently, and completed the update.  However,
> something was (not terribly surprisingly) done wrong and the process
> left the gdk libraries munged.  Consequently, I cannot start X.  Also, I
> don't know for certain WHICH library is bollixed up.
> 
> I would prefer not to have to do a full reinstall of the laptop,
> although of course I can and may end up doing so.  I would LIKE to trick
> yum into re-updating all the rpms in the X subsystem all at once, even
> though their revision numbers do not increment.
> 
> Any suggestions on how I might do that?
> 

What is the error message coming from X?

-sv





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