X11 issue after using up2date

Ryan ryan at rfnow.net
Tue Apr 13 17:04:02 UTC 2004


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





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