RHN/up2date killed my fedora
Trevor Smith
trevor at haligonian.com
Wed May 12 21:25:48 UTC 2004
Compaq Presario 2197CA laptop, AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 512 meg ram. Install went
perfectly (after I turned off legacy USB support in BIOS), laptop worked fine
for a few days.
I tried using the RHN to update all my installed software. One or 2 packages
had corruption but after hours of tinkering I decided to try "continue
anyway" and see if it would just skip trying to install those packages.
Instead, up2date/rpm just failed and stopped when it reached those packages.
Then my desktop was acting strangely so I logged out.
I could not log back in. I would see a text prompt (not the graphical prompt
I'm used to) for a second but it would disappear, only to reappear for a
brief second a bit later, and so on, forever. I tried rebooting but when I
get to where the graphical login screen should be, I get an error:
id "x" tried to respawn too quickly waiting 5 minutes
(or something like that). I tried logging in to the console as root and doing
rpm -Uvh *.rpm on the /var/spool/up2date dir but it said the files were
already installed. Reboots continued to barf in exactly the same way.
I just (re)installed from my Fedora Core 1 CDs and did an "update current
installation" and now I'm back to the "text login then immediate blank
screen" repeating situation.
I'm assuming I'll need a full system reinstall now (F*&#!!!!!!!). Any ideas
before I wipe and reinstall? There was nothing of value on the system yet but
still... grrr... just like Windows. :-(
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Trevor Smith | trevor at haligonian.com
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