rawhide->fc5; X won't start
sean
seandarcy2 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 30 03:29:18 UTC 2006
sean wrote:
> I was running rawhide updated to March 10. Went on vacation, yesterday
> did a full upgrade to fc5. Used yum to get updates released. Now X
> won't start. I think it's some sort of xfs problem.
>
> with gnome, I get the fedora bubble logo, then a black screen, alt-f1
> gets me the console, which shows:
>
> waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE "unix/7100" refcount
> is 2, should be 1, fixing
>
> syslog shows:
>
> gnome_segv2[3263]: segfault at 0000000000xxxxxxxx .........
>
> kde also won't start. The console shows:
>
> xset: bad font path element (#76), .......
>
> and syslog shows kded, ksplash, kcminit, and ksmserver segfaulting.
>
> I've restarted xfs ( no errors in syslog ). I've rebooted.
>
> Do I need to do some mkfontdir voodoo in each font directory? What did
> the upgrade change? I've seen no similar problems posted, so I assume
> it's a rawhide->fc5 issue.
>
> puzzled.
>
> sean
> sean
>
OK, so no one else sees this.
Any suggestions as to how to diagnose this? Any way to get more verbose
or clearer error messages?
sean
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