[K12OSN] taskbar issues after updates

[Will Hatch]

Les,

I opened the command line, logged in as root, and typed in: yum updates

So, the updates started in text mode and it has been working for about 1 hour.  When I'm done, will I have to issue another command to install?  Also, you mentioned that if the applets were still there, I could just re-add those things to the Gnome taskbar.  I may have screwed up by choosing "delete" when it asked me if I wanted to do so upon loading those particular applets at login.  Any way to reinstall those?  I switched to the KDE desktop, which is ok, but I think I prefer Gnome.  I tried using the cd set again and selecting "upgrade", but it didn't solve the problem.  Thanks 



> 
> From: Les Mikesell <les at futuresource.com>
> Date: 2004/08/31 Tue AM 11:02:32 EDT
> To: "Support list for opensource software in schools." <k12osn at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [K12OSN] taskbar issues after updates
> 
> On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 08:07, Will Hatch wrote:
> > Well, I decided to do all the updates and I have had some sort of a meltdown.  After I rebooted the hourglass just hung on the screen.  I tried using the earlier kernals, with the same result.  Oh no!  So, I used the k12 cd set to install/upgrade.  It managed to recover my system, but something is going on with the taskbar.  My clock, up2date icon, and other functions from the task bar had an error message.  It said I could delete the configuration for these files if I wanted.  It does this for every user.  After I selected delete, everything seems to work fine.  I miss my post-it notes, clock, weather ect.  Oh, and the icons for openoffice, mozilla, printer are on the taskbar.  Its the things on the right/bottom of the screen that are history.  Could I possibly use the cd set in upgrade mode again to recover this?  Thanks.
> 
> It may be that some of your updates didn't actually complete. I'd try it
> again, although I prefer to run yum from the command line so I can
> see what is happening a little better.  The results should be the
> same since they manage the same rpm packages.  Assuming the underlying
> applets are still there, you should be able to put back the
> missing taskbar components by clicking the right mouse button on it
> and selecting 'add to panel'.
> 
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>  Les Mikesell
>    les at futuresource.com
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