gnome-settings-dameon crashes when I log in as root

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 17:20, Manuel Moreno wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-02 at 15:09 -0500, Andrew Konosky wrote:
> > ==========
> > [andrew at localhost andrew]$ rpm -qa|grep -i control-center-*
> > control-center-2.6.1-3
> > [andrew at localhost andrew]$
> > ==========
> > 
> > So control-center is still installed. Should I just rpm -e 
> > control-center-* and then rpm -i control-center-*, or do I need to do 
> > something else? Will I need the Fedora install CDs(which one?), or will 
> > the rpm file still be available on my hard drive to install when I 
> > uninstall it?
> > 
> > 
> 
> You have to locate the control-center-2.6.1-3.i386.rpm file in the
> installation cd's and copy it to somewhere at hand (i.e. /var/tmp)
> 
> then, as root, you can issue
> 
> # rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs /var/tmp/control-center-2.6.1-3.i386.rpm
> 
> No need to uninstall (rpm -e ...)
> 
> -- 
> Manuel Moreno <manolo at miconexion.com>
> 

That works, except by the K.I.S.S principle, why copy it?  It can be
done directly from the CD.  Less work and no cleanup afterward.