Harry Putnam wrote:
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.
The version is available through rawhide. I checked my installed version
and it is what you mentioned.
Try the mirror below or any similar mirror. Since you are non-gui, I
find mc handy to actually see the files. A command line program should
work also. Hopefully, there are not of a lot of programs that rely on
xinitrc.
ftp.dulug.duke.edu
Then navigate to the below directory.
/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS
I hope this gets your GUI up again.
Jim