rebuilding X from failed FC4 -> FC5 upgrade

[Jim Cornette]

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.

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>> Jim
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