On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Eli Wapniarski <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote: > On Tuesday 24 February 2009 09:10:48 Arthur Pemberton wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 12:12 AM, Eli Wapniarski >> <eli at orbsky.homelinux.org> wrote: >> >> Thanks for your detailed response. It turns out I was missing the >> kdebase-workspace package... somehow. >> >> I didn't do anything special with this machine, just a yum updated. >> >> It may be a problem with yum itself. >> >> According to yum.log, the following packages were updated along with >> my other packages: >> kdebase-workspace-libs-4.2.0-8.fc9.i386 >> kdebase-workspace-devel-4.2.0-8.fc9.i386 >> kdebase-workspace-4.2.0-8.fc9.i386 > > That's great it was so easy. The actual fix was easy, finding it wasn't. > What happens if you run as root from within a > console: > > yum-complete-transaction # yum-complete-transaction Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit updates | 2.6 kB 00:00 No unfinished transactions left. -- Fedora 9 : sulphur is good for the skin ( www.pembo13.com )