[PLUG] It just happened again

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 09:06:54 -0800
Robert Miesen <robert.miesen at gmail.com> dijo:

>Have you checked to see if you still have gnome installed? When you
>uninstalled Rythmbox and Virtualbox from your system, your RPM package
>manager might have removed gnome with those packages...especially if it was
>an automatically-installed package (or whatever the RPM equivalent is). If
>you still have gnome installed as stated by your package manager, it might
>be a good idea to reinstall it, as some shared files might have been
>clobbered when either removing Rythmbox and Virtualbox or when installing
>Virtualbox OSE.

Wes suggested the same thing, and it also occurred to me. 

In the Debian world I would just open Synaptic, select Gnome and all its
components and mark them for Reinstall. 

In Fedora I have two GUIs: Add/Remove Software and Yumex, the latter being a
bit more featureful, although it throws up a little popup every so often saying
it can't get a lock - even if started right after rebooting. I ignore the popup
and it seems to work fine.

However, neither gives me a "reinstall" option. I can uninstall, and I can
install. Uninstalling Gnome wants to uninstall a very long and scary list of
other packages, including things like gdm. I don't want to end up unable to log
in. Maybe it would be safer to do this from Xfce. (Having been through
this four times before, one of the first things I did was install Xfce and take
it for a spin to make sure I had a desktop I could log in to.)

I am not very familiar with yum at the command line yet. Perhaps that would be
a better way to "reinstall."