rebuilding X from failed FC4 -> FC5 upgrade

[Mark Haney]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.

>
> Jim
>


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Mark Haney
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