Destroyed x.org
achoens at frontiernet.net
achoens at frontiernet.net
Tue Nov 2 14:42:56 UTC 2004
Ok, here's a question for all you gurus out there. I have a problem,
and I know how to fix it, but I can't get to a point where I can fix
it. I got frustrated, and decided to beg for help.
I used yum to update a FC3 T2 system to a T3 system. All went well
enough I thought. I noticed that I had installed a new kernel, so I
decided to reboot to see how it worked. Well, the upgrade has trashed
X. I thought, no problem, I'll just disable rhgb, and boot, X will go
a little crazy, but I'll go to tty2 and roll back X, and then ask here
why the new X messed me up.
So, I boot to GRUB and remove rhgb from the kernel arguments. But, rhgb
is still used, and everytime it screws up. By the time the system is
booted, X is respanwing like crazy and you can't log in even at
non-graphical screen. I go to tty2 and type in root and it blinks and
it asks me for my login again. No opportunity to enter my password.
So, from the grub screen how can I disable rhgb and boot to 3 instead of
5? I've thought about using the rescue cd to edit my grub.conf file,
but I don't understand why editing the kernel args at boot doesn't
work.
I would appreciate any ideas on how I can eliminate X from my boot
sequence long enough to roll-back X.
BTW: does anyone have any idea why X.org 6.8.1-12 trashed my
installation?
Thanks
andy
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