can´t get kde, can´t get gnome...what happened?

[anthony baldwin]

Goksin Akdeniz wrote:

>First answers and tehnquestions.
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>You can remove a package or a group of packages via yum.
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I suppose I knew that...Of course, I expect it to be a headache, all the 
same, getting the package names all correct and what not.
Is there a way with just one command to force a reinstall without first 
removing it?
And were that possible, would it possibly either ameliorate or 
exasperate the issue?

>Have you made any chages in yum configuration, such as adding or removing 
>repos?
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>Goksin Akdeniz
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The last two installs that fell apart on me just this week I changed 
nothing at all in yum.
This most recent one, I added the livna repo.
In one of the installs, I tried to update everything at once, and was 
subsequently advised not to do so.
The other two, I selectively updated various items, but the two 
instances were not identical.
I could not be sure what common element might be the issue, since, I am 
sure, there were many
common items that I updated all three times.
Actually, the first install had issues with libpam that messed up a lot 
of other stuff
(couldn´t get root, and stuff), so in the following two, I avoided 
updating pam.
This last one, I did a few updates at a time...If I remember correctly, 
the final things I updated were
Installing a number of games, installing xmms, updating some gnome libs 
(for gnome programs I use, although,
I use KDE for my desktop).  Updating kde-base and various other 
essential kde libs.
KDE didn´t crash on me, but when I logged out of the session and 
attempted to log back in, no joy...
I get to the log in prompt, and even see the splash screen with blinking 
icons and all, but then it just
hangs at a blue screen with a mouse cursor present, and fails to load kde.

Tony