Re: X11 issue after using up2date

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On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 13:04, Ryan wrote:
> jludwig wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:34, Ryan wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi there,
> >>
> >>I just installed FC1 last night and let it ran the updates, there were 
> >>100 of them. Then after it errored out half way through, my computer 
> >>wouldn't run right. No X-Window programs were opening, i could get to 
> >>terminal sessions etc. So I decided to reboot (old habit), then when my 
> >>system came up I was greeted with: "'X' is respawning to fast... 
> >>suspending for 5 minutes" or something like that. So I logged in to the 
> >>command line and tried 'startx'. I then was greeted with this message:
> >>"error while loading shared libraries libXmau.so.1: cannot open shared 
> >>object file: No such File or Directory"
> >>
> >>So then after some searching around at the red hat site, I found how to 
> >>invoke the X Configator for RH9 so I tried (can't remember the exact 
> >>command but this is close):
> >>redhat-configure-XFree86
> >>Same error as startx. So is it possible that up2date messed up my 
> >>X-Windows? Is there a way to recover except by reinstall?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>
> >>Ryan
> >>    
> >>
> >what has most likely happened is that some programs/files are upgraded
> >for X and not others. This is my yum.conf (go ahead and use these
> >mirrors).
> >As root run the command <yum upgrade> and hopefully this will fix your
> >system.
> >
> >[main]cachedir=/var/cache/yum
> >debuglevel=2
> >logfile=/var/log/yum.log
> >pkgpolicy=newest
> >distroverpkg=fedora-release
> >tolerant=1
> >exactarch=1
> >
> >[base]
> >name=Fedora Core 1 Base :: [http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov]
> >baseurl=http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/fedora-core/1/i386/os
> >        http://dag.atrpms.net/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag
> >        http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag
> >
> >updates-released]
> >name=Fedora Core 1 Updates :: [http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov]
> >baseurl=http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/fedora-core/updates/1/i386
> >
> >[fedora-extra] name=Fedora Core 1 Extras :: [http://www.fedora.us]
> >baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
> >
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> 2 Questions now:
> 1) What is the command for the <yum upgrade>, i can figure out the 
> switches and args that I will need, just need a little help getting 
> pointed in the right direction
> 2) Should I not use up2date and just this yum update?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ryan
Up2date is the GUI for yum. On the command line type yum upgrade 
and it will hpoefully finish the update that failed.-- 
jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>



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