Disaster now no GUI

[Jim Douglas]

>From: Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com>
>Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
>Subject: Re: Disaster now no GUI
>Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:20:05 -0400
>
>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"
>
>For the X problem, running yum groupinstall "X Window System" might work. 
>For the rest, you might try installing known missing packages in the hope 
>that the installation will pull in all of the missing pieces.
>
>
>>
>>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.
>
>That is probably what happened.
>
>>
>>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?
>
>yum groupinstall "X Window System"
>is my only guess.
>
>Jim
>
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yum is gone also, how can I install yum?

Thanks,
Jim