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>
