Xorg and VNC Errors

Joseph Green jgreen at 8x8.com
Thu Jul 14 18:55:28 UTC 2005


Joseph Green wrote:

> My boss ran up2date on one of his FC3 systems (4x 2.66 GHz Xeon, 4GB 
> memory) which had been running fine until he did that. He didn't know 
> about yum, and I'm not exactly sure what was updated, but now when it 
> boots, the text scrolls out like normal, but when it gets to the 
> graphical part of the boot proccess, the screen goes black. There is 
> no login prompt displayed and it doesn't come back at all, it just 
> remains black (the monitor is not in power save mode either). When the 
> system seems to be up and running, I can still SSH into it, access the 
> website it is hosting, and use almost all of the terminal tools. 
> However, and I'm assuming that this has to do with the X issue, I can 
> not VNC into the box to get a remote desktop. This is the error I'm 
> getting from VNC:


Some information that I had left out: for some reason I can't even 
switch to any of the consoles (ctrl+F2 or ctrl+alt+F2) on the machine 
either.




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