I think I was unfortunate enough to suffer some broken RPM database
issues. I couldn't uninstall anything, and `rpm --rebuilddb` seemed to
get hung up somewhere. At that point, I just burned my data files to CDR
(after having to get cdrecord reinstalled from source) and re-installed
RH. Bummer,
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> Anybody? Anything? I know I can backup personal files and reinstall, but
> that sucks. Isn't there anything else I can do?
>
> What, exactly, does the --force option of up2date do? I thought maybe I
> could just up2date --force for each package th
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:10:08PM -0600, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> Anybody? Anything? I know I can backup personal files and reinstall, but
> that sucks. Isn't there anything else I can do?
>
> What, exactly, does the --force option of up2date do? I thought maybe I
> could just up2date --force
Anybody? Anything? I know I can backup personal files and reinstall, but
that sucks. Isn't there anything else I can do?
What, exactly, does the --force option of up2date do? I thought maybe I
could just up2date --force for each package that rpm -V
reports missing files for. But the up2date d
So a few nights ago, power went out and my machine came down hard. I had
to run fsck manually, and there is a lot of stuff in /lost+found. I'm
finding many things aren't working right, indeed there are many exe's
missing. How do I repair this? I thought the journaling in ext3 was
supposed to he
issues with my filesystem after the power loss. It's weird though
that only KDE stuff is complaining.
Mike Chambers wrote:
- Original Message -
From: "Justin Georgeson"
To: "psyche-list"
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:06 PM
Subject: can't start kde
&g
- Original Message -
From: "Justin Georgeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "psyche-list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 11:06 PM
Subject: can't start kde
> I installed the KDE workstation group, and am unable to start a KDE
>
List the messages here!!!
On Quinta Novembro 14 2002 03:06, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> I installed the KDE workstation group, and am unable to start a KDE
> session. I get two windows during startup, while it says starting
> interprocess communication. The first says that kdeinit couldn't start,
>
I installed the KDE workstation group, and am unable to start a KDE
session. I get two windows during startup, while it says starting
interprocess communication. The first says that kdeinit couldn't start,
the second says the kdesmserver couldn't start. I have no clue what to
do. I can run KDE
