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up2date broke my X ...
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| syrahz_derzai 2004-11-12, 2:45 am |
| Ran up2date today - got openoffice, ruby, nscd, glibc, and gd.
Somehow my X got broken in the process! I rebooted and now can only
log in in the text mode. I updated xorg few days ago too, but that
went well and X was starting fine until today.
I've got Fedora Core 2 on
Dell Inspiron 5150 notebook; 15 inch SXGA+
64MB DDR NVIDIA GeForceTM FX Go5200 AGP 4x Graphics
Please help - what do I do about it?
Tried to run Xorg -configure, unsuccessfully - it aborts and complains
that I don't have a mouse (well I don't, there is a touchpad on it)...
syrahz_derzai at yahoo.com
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| syrahz_derzai at yahoo.com 2004-11-12, 2:45 am |
| Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:
> "syrahz_derzai" <syrahz_derzai@yah00.c0m> wrote
> Can you run startx? Has your /etc/inittab default runlevel changed from 5?
startx gives me black screen too. I changed runlevel to 3 by
connecting remotely so that now I can login in text mode.
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| Randy McLaughlin 2004-11-16, 8:45 pm |
| "syrahz_derzai at yahoo.com" <syrahz_derzai@yah00.c0m> wrote in message
news:17005321424562@yah00.c0m...
> Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:
5?[vbcol=seagreen]
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> startx gives me black screen too. I changed runlevel to 3 by
> connecting remotely so that now I can login in text mode.
I was hoping someone better than I would respond. Since no one else will
I'll put another two cents in:
Have you checked the log files? Often I find it easier to delete the
logfiles then try to run it again that way the logfiles are cleaner.
Have you checked the /etc/X11/XF86Config file?
If necessary you can reinstall the RPM's.
Randy
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| syrahz_derzai at yahoo.com 2004-11-17, 2:45 am |
| Randy McLaughlin <randy@nospam.com> wrote:
> "syrahz_derzai at yahoo.com" <syrahz_derzai@yah00.c0m> wrote
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> I was hoping someone better than I would respond. Since no one else will
> I'll put another two cents in:
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> Have you checked the log files? Often I find it easier to delete the
> logfiles then try to run it again that way the logfiles are cleaner.
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> Have you checked the /etc/X11/XF86Config file?
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> If necessary you can reinstall the RPM's.
Thanks... Someone a lot more knowledgeable than me tried to restore X
but couldn't. Told me up2date messed up the system while fetching and
putting glib in. Had to re-install Fedora - I had local files saved so
not a problem. Is this a known issue? The disk on this notebook is
split in two - first half is to hold XP. I was told to use 'yum' for
updates.
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| Randy McLaughlin 2004-11-17, 2:45 am |
| "syrahz_derzai at yahoo.com" <syrahz_derzai@yah00.c0m> wrote in message
news:1e6s71w4w5462r20g16k9@yah00.c0m...
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> Thanks... Someone a lot more knowledgeable than me tried to restore X
> but couldn't. Told me up2date messed up the system while fetching and
> putting glib in. Had to re-install Fedora - I had local files saved so
> not a problem. Is this a known issue? The disk on this notebook is
> split in two - first half is to hold XP. I was told to use 'yum' for
> updates.
The only trouble I ever had with up2date was corrupted RPM index, never
corrupting any package.
I don't remember the command to repair the database, I just typed rpm --help
and saw what I needed.
One thing to do is once you see the problem quickly check the log files to
see the last files added. I would have manually told up2date to force
installation of the same packages again.
If all you had was a workstation setup (laptops make terrible servers) it
was probably much faster to backup and start over.
I like starting over with a clean install, it really doesn't take that long.
With a server it just takes more files to keep (from /etc, /var).
Randy
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