Gnome Disapeared from the boot menu

[Guillermo Garron]

On 8/31/06, Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> Guillermo Garron wrote:
> >> If gnome is messed up, running
> >> yum groupinstall "GNOME Desktop Environment"
> >> might pull in the missing pieces.
> >>
> >> I tried it on my system and only gnome-screesaver and hal-gnome was
> >> pulled in. I canceled the upgrade request and just installed hal-gnome.
> >> The one package is intentional. The other does not have a bad reputation
> >>   yet for me.
> >>
> >> Anyway, it will not reinstall already installed rpms, just the missing
> >> rpms.
> >>
> >> Jim
> > Thank you Jim
> >
> > I think i have found the problem, yesterday i have installed and
> > deinstalled some programs (in order to make yum update faster) and i
> > think i messed up the whole think
> > look at this below (comes from my WatchLog)
> >
> > .. Lots of rpms removed
>
> It looks like you thinned down the installation quite a bit. You still
> might be able to recover from this with a group install.
>
> Of course, you might just reinstall and unselect packages that you want
> to slim and pick the packages that you do want to install.
>
> This defeats your goal to speed up yum though. You probably will be
> better off running yum grouplist and picking the groups that you want.
> Then follow-up with the groupinstall option.
>
> Once yum grabs the packages, yum should only grab the latest packages
> and the updates will not be very large. (Usually)
Thanks Jim,

guillermo