Re: What to do?

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 07:11 -0700, Robert Wuest wrote:
> I don't think 'yum update' will reinstall a removed package.  How would
> it know to update something that is not there?  You'd need to use rpm to
> reinstall (or the software installer GUI).
yum install installs packages that have been removed.
> 
> I rebooted (I hate rebooting a Linux box, it's such an admission of
> defeat :) nautilus seems to be working for me, but the CD burner is
> still failing.  Started a KDE session and k3b did burn a CD, only it was
> garbage because a bunch of files were just missing! No errors, just
> missing files.
> 
> I made a new user and logged into a gnome session as that user and the
> nautilus CD burner just hangs.
> 
> I don't exactly know why I am hung up on the CD burner, except it
> failing was the first symptom I saw after the Feb 18 updates. It was
> working fine before that.
> 
> Robert
> 
> On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 13:47 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Henning Larsen wrote:
> > 
> > > I would create a new user and log in as the new user, and see if the
> > > problems disappears.
> > > 
> > > If they do, then the problems is easier to locate.
> > > If not, you could try to remove some of the programs with problems, and
> > > reinstall them.
> > 
> > What is the official way of re-installing a program in Fedora?
> > In general "yum remove foo" will remove a large number of packages.
> > Can one just remove the program with rpm and run "yum update"?
> > 
> > -- 
> > Timothy Murphy  
> > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
> > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
> > 
> 
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