Disaster now no GUI

[Thomas Cameron]

Jim Douglas wrote:
> I had a confilct with hwdata and yumex removed it and all it's 
> dependencies....by mistake.
> 
> No more GUI, no nore bash shelll.  But it didn't destroy all my 
> configuration info for networking webserver etc...and I'm hompeful I can 
> get things back to normal with some help...
> 
> What I did to try and fix it was was upgraded to FC5(from FC4) but now I 
> can't start my GUI
> 
> startx says "bash: command not found"
> 
> system-config-display lets me change setting but on exit there's an 
> error message that says.
> Windows Manager warning: failed to read from file 
> /usr/share/themes...metacity.xml
> 
> I checked and there is no directory "themes" it must have been deleted 
> by my yumex mistake.
> 
> How can I get the Windows Manager Bback?  What do I need to install/config?
> 
> A final message I got says,
> Windows Manager warning:  Lost Connection to Display: ':17.0":
> most likely the xserver was shut down or you lled/destroyed the windows 
> manager.
> 
> Can someone tell me the best way to restore my windows manager/GUI?


Can you boot to runlevel 3 and log in?  If so, do that and see if you 
can install the tools you need.

TC