the amazing disappearing reappearance

[eor]

Tuesday evening I decided to install a minor bit of software on my machine, but found out it needed another bit of software upgraded. I was sleepy and not really playing attention and well, it didn't go well. By the end of the evening I had a distinct lack of x-windows. I was gnomeless and adrift.

I ended up upgrading my system and completely reinstalling X, gnome, and various applications. No data lost and I got a nice updated system out of it, but I didn't do anything else on the computer for most of the week. Last night everything was back to normal but I was unable to write due to a raging headache.