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 -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
