For some reason my reply didn't make it to the list. At least, I didn't receive it. So, I'm copying this back to the test list. On Sat, 29 Oct 2016 09:24:17 +0200 Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 10/28/16 19:02, stan wrote: > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 16:26:01 +0200 > > Joachim Backes <joachim.backes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> Hi f25 guys, > >> > >> seeing a problem in f25 if I try to install the lxde desktop group: > >> > >> 1. rpm -qa|grep -i lxde > >> (empty output, in my eyes it seems no lxde package is > >> installed) > > > > When I do the equivalent, the 3 packages below show up. > > > >> My question: Is lxde installed, or not? > > > > I run lxde as my principal desktop. These are the only packages > > installed that have lxde in the name. > > > > imsettings-lxde-1.7.2-1.fc25.x86_64 > > lxde-common-0.99.1-1.fc25.noarch > > lxde-icon-theme-0.5.1-2.fc24.noarch > > > > Does the program /usr/bin/startlxde exist on your system? > > Hi Stan, > > does not exist! Then, lxde is not installed, no matter what dnf says. > >> If try to login, no lxde desktop variant is offered. > >> > >> I remember that a had similar dnf problems in f24 if I tried to > >> install desktop groups. > >> > >> Any help? > > > > What if you start in multiuser mode (old runlevel 3), login, and run > > startlxde from a terminal? > > As I said: does not exist! > > > > > Is this an upgrade rather than a clean install? Is it possible > > that at the time of the upgrade a new lxde wasn't available, so the > > old one was deleted leaving an artifact behind still indicating > > that lxde group is installed, but it is actually gone? > > It is an upgrade from F24. What if you do a dnf group remove lxde to remove any cruft left over. Then try to do the group install again. It shouldn't be this, but you could try to rebuild the rpm database, rpm --rebuilddb as root of course. _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to test-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
