gnome-settings-dameon crashes when I log in as root

[Andrew Konosky]

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 17:20, Manuel Moreno wrote:
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>>On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:09 -0500, Andrew Konosky wrote:
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>>>[andrew at localhost andrew]$ rpm -qa|grep -i control-center-*
>>>control-center-2.6.1-3
>>>[andrew at localhost andrew]$
>>>==========
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>>>So control-center is still installed. Should I just rpm -e 
>>>control-center-* and then rpm -i control-center-*, or do I need to do 
>>>something else? Will I need the Fedora install CDs(which one?), or will 
>>>the rpm file still be available on my hard drive to install when I 
>>>uninstall it?
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>>You have to locate the control-center-2.6.1-3.i386.rpm file in the
>>installation cd's and copy it to somewhere at hand (i.e. /var/tmp)
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>>then, as root, you can issue
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>># rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs /var/tmp/control-center-2.6.1-3.i386.rpm
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>>No need to uninstall (rpm -e ...)
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>>-- 
>>Manuel Moreno <manolo at miconexion.com>
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>That works, except by the K.I.S.S principle, why copy it?  It can be
>done directly from the CD.  Less work and no cleanup afterward.
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Well, I did rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs 
/mnt/cdrom/Fedora/RPMS/control-center-*.rpm and it installed the rpm 
with no error messages, so I'll see what ir does when I log in as root 
next time...