On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 00:03 -0600, clemens@xxxxxxx wrote: > I have just returned from a trip, and had several complaints about > things not working on FC2. > > My first assumption was that with the BIG X11 update that went by > a week or so ago these programs were now broken. > > I told the users to try logging out/logging back in and seeing if > this would 'fix' the problem,- as they might be running with some > strange combination of X11 libraries, but this didnt help. > > When I had time to investigate the problem, I found that the X11 > update that ran about a week ago had completely blown away the > /usr/X11R6/bin and /usr/X11R6/lib directories, at the same time > was smart enough to remove the RPMS of the programs that were > installed there. In any case, things like > > nedit > xfig > xpdf > openmotif > <others> > > Which were previously in the X11R6 bin/lib were now gone, but > doing an rpm -qa shows that the rpm had been unloaded too. > > Why would the X11 update REMOVE these other RPMS???? It wouldn't have. A more likely explanation is that somebody did a "yum remove" on one of the base X11 packages like xorg-libs. That would have resulted in the removal of all X-based packages from the system. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
