Jim Cornette <redhat-jc(a)insight.rr.com> writes:
I had the same problem and it killed X completely. There was no
listing for XFree86 being installed, after the upgrade.
I ended up running mc and ftp transferred the latest files from
people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-42 directory
and downloaded the files to a directory. Then I ran rpm -Uvh XF* when
in the directory and the rpms installed and worked.
It seems that the problem was with a corrupted
XFree86-base-fonts-<version> rpm. I tried to open up the rpm package
with mc and this one would not open up at all. The other ones seemed
to open up alright.
Here are the files that were available. Believe me! unstable packages
worked better than that series of upgrades.
Trying your fix, I struck out at least temporarily.
rpm -Uvh XF*.rpm against the packages you listed runs into a
dependancy error:
[root@exp reader]# rpm -Uvh XF*.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
xinitrc is needed by XFree86-4.3.0-42
xinitrc >= 3.13 is needed by XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-42
Suggested resolutions:
xinitrc-3.35-1.noarch.rpm
But then the suggested file is unknown to up2date (on rawhide)
[root@exp reader]# up2date -i xinitrc-3.35-1.noarch.rpm
Fetching package list for channel: rawhide...
Fetching
http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide//headers/header.info...
########################################
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rawhide...
Fetching rpm headers...
Name Version Rel
----------------------------------------------------------
The following packages you requested were not found:
xinitrc-3.35-1.noarch.rpm
I don't see it on Mikes site either.