At 11:55 AM -0700 7/14/05, Joseph Green wrote: >Joseph Green wrote: > >> My boss ran up2date on one of his FC3 systems (4x 2.66 GHz Xeon, 4GB >> memory) which had been running fine until he did that. He didn't know >> about yum, and I'm not exactly sure what was updated, but now when it >> boots, the text scrolls out like normal, but when it gets to the >> graphical part of the boot proccess, the screen goes black. There is >> no login prompt displayed and it doesn't come back at all, it just >> remains black (the monitor is not in power save mode either). When the >> system seems to be up and running, I can still SSH into it, access the >> website it is hosting, and use almost all of the terminal tools. >> However, and I'm assuming that this has to do with the X issue, I can >> not VNC into the box to get a remote desktop. This is the error I'm >> getting from VNC: > > >Some information that I had left out: for some reason I can't even >switch to any of the consoles (ctrl+F2 or ctrl+alt+F2) on the machine >either. This could be a problem that has been reported for FC4 users, where the consoles are all black or mostly black with a colored border. That one I think is caused by an update to libvgahw.a and cured by replacing it with the old "FC3" one. Since you can still ssh into it, you might want to check the version of the package it came in: $ yum provides libvgahw.a ... xorg-x11.i386 6.8.2-1.FC3.13 installed Matched from: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libvgahw.a ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
