f7 update broke lots of stuff

[Cameron Simpson]

On 11Jul2007 15:18, Ken Dyke <ken_i_m at bozemanlug.org> wrote:
| Ran yum update about an hour ago.  First update in about a week.
| 
| The frames around windows is missing.  I can't move a window with the
| mouse.  I have only one desktop (workspace icon on the task bar is
| missing).  In fact, there are no buttons on the taskbar for running
| programs....

Your window manager isn't running.

Try typing "twm" or "fvwm" or any of a few other window managers.  They won't
be what you are used to, but at least you will have window borders and titles
etc and be able to move stuff around while you figure out what went wrong
with the update.

| Went digging around to look for stuff to help describe the problem.
| Looked in upgrade.log and found lots of packages with errors that look 
| like the one below:
| 
| Upgrading gdm - 1:2.18.0-14.fc7.i386
| warning: /etc/gdm/custom.conf created as /etc/gdm/custom.conf.rpmnew
| I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
| I/O error : Attempt to load network entity http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd
| /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/fr/gdm.xml:27: parser error : Entity 'eacute' not defined
|     <title>Manuel de configuration de l'écran de connexion V&manrevision;

Does your network work, and can you see the internet? Does:

  wget -O - http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd

fetch an XML document?

| /usr/share/gnome/help/gdm/fr/legal.xml:2: parser error : Entity 'rsquo' not defined
|          <para>L’utilisateur est libre de copier, distribuer et/ou modifie

I'm presuming these are all a side effect of difficulties with the
docbook DTD file above.

They should also be irrelevant, I think.

What other errors are there?

Does "yum update" offer to update anything at the moment?
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