What to do?

[Henning Larsen]

On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 19:44 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > Henning Larsen wrote:
> > 
> >> I would create a new user and log in as the new user, and see if the
> >> problems disappears.
> >>
> >> If they do, then the problems is easier to locate.
> >> If not, you could try to remove some of the programs with problems, and
> >> reinstall them.
> > 
> > What is the official way of re-installing a program in Fedora?
> > In general "yum remove foo" will remove a large number of packages.
> > Can one just remove the program with rpm and run "yum update"?
> 
> The latest yum (3.2.11) in Rawhide supports a "reinstall" argument.
> 
> # yum reinstall <foo> works.
> 
> Rahul
> 
That's nice. does it leave dependencies or reinstall those packages too?

Henning Larsen