Allegedly, on or about 25 September 2013, Paul Erickson sent: > I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling without success. This isn't Windows, it's highly unlikely that any system or application files have disappeared thanks to some other application being installed, nor due to filing system or operating system foul-ups. So re-installing rarely makes any difference. If the application is faulty, putting it back on will be the same (though putting an older version back on, if that's possible, which it mayn't, that might help in the short run). If the application was fine, putting it back on will be the same. It tends to only be things like hardware faults that cause random screwups, and if they're the cause of an install failing, or a failing hard drive losing some data, they're the fault that actually needs fixing, as it will re-occur, and re-installing doesn't fix those types of faults. So, you check the cooling fans are working, you check that all the plug-in boards are firmly in place (if you've moved a PC about, things do shift internally unless you have a very heavy rigid case, so pull them completely out, then plug them back in), you do memory tests (e.g. memtest86), you check the hard drive for errors (e.g. SMART). If there was something wrong with your personal configuration files, they're completely independent from installs and uninstalls. You need to deal with them separately (move them somewhere else, rename them, delete them). Another poster has covered how to do that. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
