On Wed, 2008-09-17 at 20:34 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > This is what I did: > > 1) Used "grep xorg-x11 /var/log/yum.log" to see what the latest yum > update installed in relation to X. This gave me > xorg-x11-Xorg-server-common and xorg-x11-Xorg-server-Xorg plus some > other things which don't seem relevant. > > 2) Used yumdownloader (from the yum-utils package: "yum install > yum-utils") to get the previous versions of these packages, which the > update had wiped from my cache. Note that you have to provide the > package names, which the above grep can also give you, assuming you > updated Xorg at least once since installing the system. If not, get the > ones from the install CD. > > 3) Use "rpm -ihv --oldpackage old1.rpm old2.rpm" to install. Hopefully > you won't end up in dependancy hell. > > 4) Restart X and cross fingers. > > No guarantees, YMMV, etc. etc. > > poc > > PS Some day maybe we'll have an "undo" option for yum :-) That would be nice ! I got my keyboard and mouse working with X again by rolling back to the previous Xorg files. Here is how I did it. (All commands run as root from the console.) 1) Find out what got updated this morning: # grep xorg-x11 /var/log/yum.log Sep 10 09:33:53 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-geode-2.10.1-1.fc9.i386 Sep 12 12:53:23 Updated: xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.3-12.1.fc9.noarch Sep 17 07:59:40 Updated: xorg-x11-server-common-1.5.0-1.fc9.i386 Sep 17 08:00:02 Updated: xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.5.0-1.fc9.i386 Sep 17 08:00:03 Updated: xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.0.4-1.fc9.i386 I see that 3 Xorg files changed today. 2) Install yum-utils so that I can run yumdownloader. yum install yum-utils 3) Find the previous version of the first file. yum list --showduplicates xorg-x11-server-common Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit Installed Packages xorg-x11-server-common.i386 1.4.99.901-29.20080415 available xorg-x11-server-common.i386 1.5.0-1.fc9 installed 4) Download the first file. yumdownloader xorg-x11-server-common-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.i386 5) Find the previous version of the second file. yum list --showduplicates xorg-x11-server-common Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit Installed Packages xorg-x11-server-common.i386 1.4.99.901-29.20080415 available xorg-x11-server-common.i386 1.5.0-1.fc9 installed 6) Download the previous version of the second file. yumdownloader xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.4.99.901-29.20080415.fc9.i386 7) Find the previous version of the 3rd file yum list --showduplicates xorg-x11-drv-evdev Loaded plugins: priorities, refresh-packagekit Installed Packages xorg-x11-drv-evdev.i386 1.99.1-0.5.fc9 available xorg-x11-drv-evdev.i386 2.0.4-1.fc9 installed 8) Download the previous version of the 3rd file yumdownloader xorg-x11-drv-evdev-1.99.1-0.5.fc9.i386 9) Install the files with rpm. rpm -i --force *.rpm 10) Reboot /sbin/shutdown -r now I hope this helps someone. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
