[ale] Fedora 27 no window manager

[Pete Hardie]

Solution - download USB live image, backup $Home, install F28, restore $HOME

On Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 21:18 Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>> >             Author: The Key to Everyday Excellence
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>> >
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