Paul F. Johnson writes:
Hi,For some reason I am unable figure out, my main box has gone insane and decided not to bother installing correctly a whole raft of packages from a yumupdate (despite yum reporting the had been installed correctly). An example is that I'm having to use kde instead of gnome as gnome complains thus There was an error starting the GNOME settings daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not work correctly. The Settings daemon restarted too many times. The last error message was: Child process did not give an error message, unknown failure occured. GNOME will try to restart the Settings Daemon next time you log in. If I do rpm -q gnome-desktop, I'm told it's not installed. Parts of evolution didn't install as well as a pile of others - firefox is just saying permission denied for me (as me) and me as su. I've cleaned the metafiles from yum and rebuilt the rpmdb, but all I have is a partially usable system.
Without knowing specifically what's broken, there aren't many suggestions that can be made.
If you've rebuilt rpmdb and you now have a stable RPM database, the next step is to reinstall any missing packages. You'll have to compile a list of packages you have installed, then look at all the packages on the Fedora CD/DVDs, use rpm -q -i -p to obtain the description of each package, and decide if it needs to be installed.
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