Mark Haney wrote:
Jim Cornette wrote:
Two questions before you attempt to remove and replace X:
- Did you try to start X in runlevel 3 using startx?
Yes I tried that and I got some odd error about xinit not being in the
environment vars? (I'm not at the system so I can't say for certain.)
It seems like there's not X server installed based on the error message.
- Did you try to run system-config-display --reconfig in runlevel 3 as
root to try to reconfigure X?
No, I didn't try this, but I certainly will when I get home. Thanks for
the suggestions.
Mark Haney wrote:
I upgraded one of my machines to FC5 from 4 the other night and
everything went smoothly except on reboot. Now X doesn't work. It
appears that Xorg didn't completely install. I've tried everything I
know, but can't get it completely uninstalled. It tells me
xorg-x11-xdm is not installed, but when querying rpm I get the
correct version from FC5 (1.0.something). Any ideas on how to
completely blow X away and re-install?
Probably the best way to correct the xorg problem is to use the
install media if DVD and use rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs
xorg-x11*.rpm which should install all xorg-x11 packages and overwrite
the files previously installed.
I had to do this on a fresh installation that had an S3 video card. The
installer failed when trying to setup X.
After reconfiguring X with system-config-display, the computer booted up
into gdm on the next boot. Hopefully using s-c-display will cure your
problem.
If it does not cure your problem, you might try yum -y upgrade in a
*terminal* in either runlevel 3 or runlevel 1. For runlevel 1 you will
need to start the network with service network start. Yum should take it
from there.
After I fixed my system problem, there was some package called
xorg-x11-server* that was pulled in along with 45 additional package
upgrades. I ran yum -y update again and noticed some additional packages
were pulled in that were not pulled in from the installer from the DVD.
Jim
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