Harry Putnam wrote:
After a full upgrade this morning from older test3 to the newest
stuff, I'm unable to startx or to boot to runlevel 5.
XFREE pkgs were some of those updated and now consist of:
rpm -qa|grep XF
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-42
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-42
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-42
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-42
I'm pretty sure there should be a bunch more from
rpm -qa|grep XF
Particulary the font packages
If these were not installed during upgrade there must be something
fairly major wrong since I was runnning X before the upgrade. I did
the upgrade with no X running however.
attempting to start collecting the missing packages I tried:
up2date -i XFree86-100dpi-fonts which is now hanging at the
dependancy resolving part and been there about 1/2 hr.
up2date version is up2date-4.12.1-4
I'd like to see a list of the full set of packages requred. And try
to piece them in by hand if necessary.
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.
Jim
[root@xfree]# ls XF*
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-doc-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-sdk-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-tools-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-twm-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm