[ale] Fedora 27 no window manager

[Pete Hardie]

Now they tell me...... ;)

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 20:32 Robert Tweedy via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> It looks like it's a known bug with the update of the soundtouch package
> from 1.9.x to 2.0.0
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1601724). I ran into a
> similar issue on my Fedora 27 install where dnf complained that it
> couldn't upgrade "gstreamer1-plugins-bad" because it interfered with the
> soundtouch 1.9 package, and it couldn't upgrade to soundtouch 2.0.0
> because it interfered with the "gstreamer1-plugins-bad" package.
>
> Tried removing soundtouch 1.9 just to see what it would do, but backed
> out of the command as soon as it said it wanted to remove everything but
> the kitchen sink and systemd to satisfy dependencies. Ultimately decided
> to just skip updates this week and try again next Friday.
>
> -Robert
>
> On 07/20/2018 08:16 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> > dnf group-list
> > Then dnf group-install the appropriate group to get X desktop. Don't
> > know if you use kde, gnome or others. You can also do group-remove,
> > then group-install.
> >
> > Check /var/log/yum or dnf log for what was done prior to all of this.
> > Try reinstalling the prior removed package.
> >
> > On July 20, 2018 5:57:35 PM EDT, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     Oh, and X -configure crashes
> >
> >     On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 17:38 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org
> >     <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> >
> >         Or just run X -configure to build a config file.
> >
> >         What package was fubarred? I run fedora 27/28 systems and have
> >         only had issues with packages from repos other than fedora and
> >         rpmfusion.
> >
> >         On July 20, 2018 5:21:46 PM EDT, Steve Litt via Ale
> >         <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> >
> >             On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:13:53 -0400
> >             Pete Hardie via Ale <ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>>
> wrote:
> >
> >                 A cry for help. Was updating this evening, and dnf
> >                 said there was one package with a conflict and gave
> >                 dnf options to resolve it. I followed that and halfway
> >                 through the box reset, and now I can't get it back to
> >                 graphical mode. Systemd has made it harder for me to
> >                 diagnose, so the batsignal is lit
> >
> >
> >             Try using startx to start X. Note you must have a ~/.xinitrc
> file for
> >             this to work. Here's my (rather overly complex) ~/.xinitrc:
> >
> >             #!/bin/sh
> >             xrdb -load /home/slitt/.Xdefaults
> >             boolean false exec /usr/bin/openbox-session
> >
> >             Let us know whether this works.
> >
> >             SteveT
> >
> >             Steve Litt
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> >
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