Re: Help with thread Centos 6.4 won't reboot on install

[Robert Benjamin <benjie1@xxxxxxx>]

On 3/29/2013 3:31 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Robert Benjamin <benjie1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> looked in /var/log/yum.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log  permission denied
>> chmod a+x OK got list of time stamped and at bottom I tried yum install
>> one of the items there. Got 'no package name '.
> You need to do most of this as root.  Carefully...  I am logged in as root
>
>> tried rm /tmp/ .X0-lock
>                         ^^no space there.   Realize the error now. Will repeat sans space.
>> gives '/tmp is a dir.
> The shell breaks commands on white space.
>
>> Did cd /tmp/ .X0-lock  and ls several files and subdirs (?) but no
>> X0-lock
> You actually did a cd /tmp.
    Yes I did cause it said tmp is a dir so I thought I would find 
something there but no luck. I tried.
>
>> Tried again to find .X0-lock and no luck. Hope I didn't make
>> things worse.
> Your are looking for /tmp/.X0-lock.   Another convention is that files
> starting with a . are 'hidden' in the sense that ls will omit them
> unless you use the -a option.
       so just what should appear after I type rm /tmp/.X0-lock   Any 
output expected?
>
>> Yum update said no packages set for install and yum
>> install (from time stamped items) said 'no package available' with the
>> name and numbers  from a time stamped line picked at random.
> Your yum remove command may also have been interpreted oddly if you
> had the space after /tmp.
> Normally you would just give the base package name to install,
> stopping before the -version-number part.
> For example if your log says yum removed gnome-disk-utility.i686
> 0:2.30.1-2.el6 you would get it back with
> yum install gnome-disk-utility.
     I never got a nice neat list lie what you have above .Maybe I had 
another error when I tried to look in /var/log/yum.log  What is the best 
command to use to look in here?   Thanks . Have a great Easter 
Holiday.                          Bob
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