FW: Installation problems.

["Coley, James" <JCOLE11 alldata net>]

First off I'd like to thank those of you who responded to me yesterday with
suggestions on my bad install.  I tried a few things and finally decided a
reload would be easier.  I've just finished a fresh install of Redhat 5.2
and Gnome 1.0 for i386.  On the first execution, I'm looking at the Gnome
desktop (!).  However, I've got a warning message that reads "You are
running the GNOME Midnight Commander as root.  You will not be protected
from severly damaging your system if you continue."  As I recall, this is
the same message that appeared during my first install, and sure enough, I
serverly damaged my system and didn't see Gnome after the first execution.
What now?

James

> ----------
> From: 	Coley, James[SMTP:JCOLE11@alldata.net]
> Sent: 	Monday, March 29, 1999 3:59 PM
> To: 	'gnome-list@gnome.org'
> Subject: 	Installation problems.
> 
> Please excuse my feeble requests for information, as I'm a new (Gnew?)
> user
> to Linux from the NT world trying out the Gnome interface.  If I'm
> directing
> this to the wrong forum let me know and I'll head elsewhere.
> 
> I installed Redhat 5.2 (everything) & downloaded Gnome 1.0 i386 & noarch
> from ftp.cybertrails.com mirror.  I verified the four required rpm's from
> the install instructions and then applied the noarch & i386 Gnome rpms.
> After editing Xclients I ran startx.  The initial execution gave me a
> glimpse of the Gnome desktop (Foot menu button, etc.) and then went to a
> blank grey screen with a cursor.  With no keyboard response I hard booted,
> subsequent startX commands open the GUI, display the Enlightenment startup
> bar to 100%, and then I get my blank screen again.
> 
> I've tried deinstalling, however, I've run into a Catch-22 when I run rpm
> -e, the response is that the package is not installed, but if I run rpm
> -Uvh
> or -Ivh, the response is that the package is already installed and cannot
> be
> installed.
> 
> I realize there are issues here that someone more skilled in the OS would
> be
> able to pinpoint more easily, but with my inexperience I'm hoping that
> this
> forum may be able to offer me some direction.
> 
> 
> James Coley
> jcole11@alldata.net
> 
> 
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