Did you replace the default gnome environment? It still looks like someone screwed the dependencies of the group. Those packages require a desktop environment. Unless the mate overwrote all the crap in the rpmdb (smack the package maintainer for a screwup of colossal proportions) it should just uninstall with the groupremove as you tried.<br>
<br>try just removing the desktop manager application of mate using yum remove foo instead of groupremove. You can add a few --exclude=<package-to-keep> exceptions to prevent total calamity.<br><br>OR - try a yum groupinstall GNOME (or whatever it's called) then groupremove mate. Basically try and rewrite the deps tree so mate is disconnected.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 8:43 AM, Michael B. Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbt@naunetcorp.com" target="_blank">mbt@naunetcorp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I've been running Fedora now for a little while... since about F17,<br>
anyway. I've managed to fix things most of the time when these bloody<br>
package management utilities break, but now I'm kind of stuck.<br>
<br>
I recently decided to experiment with MATE. I then (nearly immediately)<br>
decided it was worthless, so I decided to try Cinnamon, since I'm<br>
running F18 and it wasn't functional in F17. (Good news, it actually<br>
seems to work in F18, one relatively major bug notwithstanding.)<br>
<br>
Anyway, I decided that I wanted to remove MATE, because it pulls in a<br>
bunch of GTK2 stuff, including a bunch of duplicate programs. But, when<br>
I tried to do so...<br>
<br>
Well, let's back up a second. To install MATE, I simply did:<br>
<br>
# yum -y groupinstall 'MATE Desktop'<br>
<br>
Which, of course, did as I wanted.<br>
<br>
However, when I do this:<br>
<br>
# yum groupremove 'MATE Desktop'<br>
<br>
I get... well, I get a *lot* of output, but here is the stderr:<br>
<br>
[root@aloe ~]# cat remove-mate.stderr<br>
No group named MATE Desktop exists<br>
Skipping the running kernel: kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64<br>
Skipping the running kernel: kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64<br>
Skipping the running kernel: kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64<br>
Skipping the running kernel: kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64<br>
Skipping the running kernel: kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64<br>
Skipping the running kernel: kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64<br>
Skipping the running kernel: kernel-3.8.1-201.fc18.x86_64<br>
Error: Trying to remove "systemd", which is protected<br>
Error: Trying to remove "yum", which is protected<br>
<br>
Now the confusing thing is that MATE Desktop installed just fine using<br>
that group name, and that's the name that appears in the output of "yum<br>
grouplist". Go figure.<br>
<br>
And I can't attach the uncompressed output of stdout, so I've simply<br>
attached it as an .xz file for anyone who wants to read the whole thing.<br>
But here is the first few lines:<br>
<br>
Loaded plugins: auto-update-debuginfo, langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit<br>
Resolving Dependencies<br>
--> Running transaction check<br>
---> Package ConsoleKit-x11.x86_64 0:0.4.5-3.fc18 will be erased<br>
---> Package ModemManager.x86_64 0:0.6.0.0-3.fc18 will be erased<br>
---> Package NetworkManager.x86_64 1:0.9.8.0-1.fc18 will be erased<br>
--> Processing Dependency: NetworkManager >= 1:0.7.1-3.git20090414 for<br>
package: anaconda-18.37.11-1.fc18.x86_64<br>
---> Package NetworkManager-openconnect.x86_64<br>
0:0.9.7.0-1.git20120918.fc18 will be erased<br>
---> Package NetworkManager-openvpn.x86_64 1:0.9.3.997-3.fc18 will be erased<br>
---> Package NetworkManager-pptp.x86_64 1:0.9.3.997-3.fc18 will be erased<br>
---> Package NetworkManager-vpnc.x86_64 1:0.9.3.997-3.fc18 will be erased<br>
---> Package PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin.x86_64 0:0.8.7-1.fc18 will be<br>
erased<br>
---> Package PackageKit-yum-plugin.x86_64 0:0.8.7-1.fc18 will be erased<br>
---> Package a2ps.x86_64 0:4.14-16.fc18 will be erased<br>
---> Package abattis-cantarell-fonts.noarch 0:0.0.10.1-1.fc18 will be erased<br>
<br>
And there is _miles_ of this!<br>
<br>
Ultimately yum stops, saying that yum and systemd are protected and so<br>
it aborts. Well, that's good, I don't really want the stupid thing to<br>
remove all my packages, just the ones for the damned desktop I don't<br>
want lingering on my hard drive.<br>
<br>
Is there a way to make the groupremove command work to reverse the<br>
effect of the groupinstall command, or do I have to figure out the<br>
dependency tree for the group by hand and remove the packages myself?<br>
<br>
--- Mike<br>
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