Scot L. Harris wrote:
On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 09:32, John Lagrue wrote:
On booting up my system this morning and logging in I found myself running twm!
Investigation shows that Xclients-default no longer exists, and that gnome has seemingly vanished; certainly running 'switchdesk gnome' reports that gnome is not installed.
Does anyone have any idea of what could have caused this? And what I can do to repair it?
JDL
Did you check your RPM database to see if the gnome packages are still
listed there?
A lot were, yes.
As to what could have happened, you may have deleted some portion of
your file system by accident, you may have removed the gnome packages
using rpm or yum, one of your file systems may not have mounted
correctly, cosmic rays blasted your hard drive erasing specific files,
your system was hacked and modified by someone else just for fun, UFOs
may have replaced your system with almost an exact duplicate except for
the gnome packages (they prefer KDE).
It was the aliens, damn them!
Believe me I tried to remember; and the only answer that I can come up with is that I installed yumi. It seemed to work well, and when I last closed down the system it was from a running gnome desktop.As to what you can do to repair it, if you find the packages are no longer on your system then re-install the packages. However you may want to spend some time looking through roots shell history and the various log files to try to figure out what caused the problem in the first place.
You may also want to provide some info as to what version of the OS you are using and basic info on the hardware just in case someone else has the same equipment and has seen this problem.
Also think back to what you did just before you did nothing to the system. That usually is the source of problems like this.
:)
I solved (or rather, recovered) the system by logging into a failsafe terminal and running 'yum install gnome*'
Thanks for the pointers. I will keep an eye out for those aliens *grin*
JDL
