Someting Strange - no gnome-session! - what was the command?

[David Timms]

Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 2/20/06, David Timms <dtimms at bigpond.net.au> wrote:
>> Funny however, how at least two people managed to achieve the same thing :-)
> 
> its not funny.. its disturbing. Its doubly disturbing when people
> can't remember exactly what they did and make accusations that there
> is a problem in the software. 
I am definitely not making accusations; I think the list is for 
discussion as well as definite bugs etc.

>This could easily be local admin errors
> for both people. 
Very likely, but it's better to be sure, with hard evidence.

>But we can't know for sure if you can't be sure as to
> what actions you took to get into this situation.
Any hints why I can't find what I did in the result of the history 
command ? Or in any log files on disk ? Perhaps I'm simply looking in 
the wrong place ?

> yum remove "evolution*"      will definitely cause a problem because
> its an absolutely unwise thing to do. The evolution-data-server
> package is a piece of commonly used library infrastructure for gnome
> applications and is not a subpackage of the evolution application.
Thanks for explaining the dependencies, if it was evolution* I removed, 
then would I expect to see it in the yum log ? If not, why not ? Would 
this fact be a bug in itself (failing to log actions) ?

> -jef
I'm not trying to waste people's time on personal fault finding, but 
rather get to the bottom of what went wrong for me and taxte, and 
secondly why on disk information doesn't seem to have tracked the change 
(important when it comes down to security and accountability when 
multiple people manage a machine).

Taxte said:
 >>>>Silly me  :-D  I already know why... don't make an automated yum
 >>>>remove  :-D
 >>>Can you tell us what command you used; it still might require 
following up !

Taxte, if you can possible describe exactly what you did to induce this 
situation, it would be of great assistance.

Thanks, DaveT.