no X after full upgrade from test3 to upgraded pkgs for test3
Jim Cornette
redhat-jc at insight.rr.com
Wed Oct 29 12:31:09 UTC 2003
Harry Putnam wrote:
> Jim Cornette <redhat-jc at insight.rr.com> writes:
>
>
>>I had the same problem and it killed X completely. There was no
>>listing for XFree86 being installed, after the upgrade.
>>
>>I ended up running mc and ftp transferred the latest files from
>>people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-42 directory
>>and downloaded the files to a directory. Then I ran rpm -Uvh XF* when
>>in the directory and the rpms installed and worked.
>>
>>It seems that the problem was with a corrupted
>>XFree86-base-fonts-<version> rpm. I tried to open up the rpm package
>>with mc and this one would not open up at all. The other ones seemed
>>to open up alright.
>>
>>Here are the files that were available. Believe me! unstable packages
>>worked better than that series of upgrades.
>
>
> Trying your fix, I struck out at least temporarily.
>
> rpm -Uvh XF*.rpm against the packages you listed runs into a
> dependancy error:
> [root at exp reader]# rpm -Uvh XF*.rpm
> error: Failed dependencies:
> xinitrc is needed by XFree86-4.3.0-42
> xinitrc >= 3.13 is needed by XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-42
> Suggested resolutions:
> xinitrc-3.35-1.noarch.rpm
> But then the suggested file is unknown to up2date (on rawhide)
> [root at exp reader]# up2date -i xinitrc-3.35-1.noarch.rpm
>
> Fetching package list for channel: rawhide...
>
> Fetching http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide//headers/header.info...
> ########################################
>
> Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rawhide...
>
> Fetching rpm headers...
>
> Name Version Rel
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> The following packages you requested were not found:
> xinitrc-3.35-1.noarch.rpm
>
> I don't see it on Mikes site either.
The version is available through rawhide. I checked my installed version
and it is what you mentioned.
Try the mirror below or any similar mirror. Since you are non-gui, I
find mc handy to actually see the files. A command line program should
work also. Hopefully, there are not of a lot of programs that rely on
xinitrc.
ftp.dulug.duke.edu
Then navigate to the below directory.
/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/Fedora/RPMS
I hope this gets your GUI up again.
Jim
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