I sent this yesterday (Monday) to the incorrect e-mail address.
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I had inadvertently sent Alexander Leidinger a request regarding how to
uninstall LAME. He was kind enough to help, even though I should have
sent the question to this mailing list. THANK YOU, again, Alexander.
I had installed lame-3.92 via a lame website using a 3.92.tar.gz file
type. After I had completed the install (configure, make, make install)
I logged out and logged back in. I use RedHat 7.3 and have installed
both Gnome and KDE. All of my file managers (Nautilus for Gnome and
Konqueror for KDE) had gone a little haywire. Neither would allow me to
open a second window during a single session. I could not believe that
LAME had anything to do with my problem, but it was that last thing I
had installed. So, with Alexander kindly help, I "rm" the files,
removed other directories that were stored under my user name. I lastly
went under KDE and used "find files" to locate any other "lame*" files
that may have been missed. This included Gnome desktop references and
KDE desktop references. (I do not recall a menu entry for LAME, but
"find files" had listed something to that effect.) I then crossed my
fingers and rebooted the machine . . . . . . . . . . . all started
almost okay, except my heart stopped when it forced a check of files and
then reported a "0.3% non-contiguous" and proceeded to continue to
start. My KDE desktop was fine, but my Gnome desktop crashed. I
removed the ".gnome" directory (per instruction from my 'Mastering
Gnome' by Bryan Pfaffenberger) and logged out and back in. Gnome now
works correctly, KDE works correctly, my file managers all work
correctly and most importantly the lengthy invitation letter for our
family my wife was working on has become available, again. (She not mad
at me anymore.) Clearly this may be a very isolated incident, I wish I
had had the presence of mind to write down all the files I removed to
help analyze this problem, but I did not. Can I reproduce this problem
(someone is sure to ask this question?) I might be able too, but I do
not want too. I am just glad to have received the help I needed from
open source. I would have NEVER gotten this kind of help from some
company on the west coast of the USA.
I have solved my problem, I just wondered if my experience might help
someone else in the future.
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