On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 14:25 +0200, Francois Massonneau wrote: > Hello, > > This morning, yum updated automatically my system, and I saw it updated the > Xorg-X11 packages. > I shut down my computer without any pb, and this afternoon, I 've tried to > start my linux box, and it doesn't want ;-( > > It can boot using the FC4 install DVD rom, in rescue mode, but I can't make it > to work using the usual boot process. > > Grub comes fine, it begins to boot, the partitions are mounted, but when it > wants to display the little windows (now the boot process is graphical) that > shows the boot process, I have a fully colored screen, and nothing happen. I > have to power it off to shut it down. > > As only the xorg-x11 packages were updated, I suppose, this comes from them. > > Now I would like to be able to downgrade them, but I don't know how. > > I can boot from the install dvd, and boot in rescue mode, then > chroot /mnt/sysimage, but once there, what can I do ? > I have another computer where I can burn a dvd with the previous xorg-x11 > packages, but I don't know how to mount that dvd when I'm in rescue mode. > A "dmesg | grep hd" shows me that my dvd burner is "hdc", but when I type : > mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder, I have always the same message : > "/dev/hdc doesn't exist", or something similar. > > Thank you for your help > Francois ctl-alt-backspace should allow you to kill the xserver, and booting into init 3 and starting X manually manually may also be helpful. Once X is down, check the log files, you may also want to kill all instances of gdm or whatever diplay manager you are using. Since X appears to have started maybe you are just having a display manager issue. You can't assume the upgrade is the problem unless you did absolutely nothing on the machine between the two reboots, odds are you did :-) Regards, Ted
