[NBLUG/talk] XFree86 4.3 -- I'm trapped in an upgrade vortex!

augie augie at schwer.us
Sun Sep 7 11:31:03 PDT 2003


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Dave Sisley wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:10:44AM -0700, augie wrote:
>> it may be difficult to diagnose your problem from here with out
>> being able to poke and prod the machine. it may be time to cut your
>> losses and start over. you can remove the packages with rpm -e
>> --force <package> again look at the rpm man page for more info on
>> those switches.
> When you say 'packages' are you talking about more than XFree86?  And
> will it remove 4.3, or the cruft left over from 4.2.1?

i mean whatever it was that got you in the position you are in now, and
re-install whatever it was you had before. once you get your machine
back to the way it used to be you have a good starting point to try and
move forward again.

augie.


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