My system is not working any more

[Tom London]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Antonio M
<antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/20 Tom London <selinux at gmail.com>:
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>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Antonio M  wrote:
>>> 2008/12/20 Tom London :
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>>>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Antonio M  wrote:
>>>>> I applied today's updates and after re-booting my laptop is not
>>>>> starting any more graphically.I get only a flashing screen and I am
>>>>> using an intel graphic driver.
>>>>> I do not know how to recover, just for info, I started my system in
>>>>> runlevel=3 and then I issued a startx but nothing happened.
>>>>> At a first investigation, I didn't find /usr/bin/system-config-display .....
>>>>>
>>>>> What happened?? and how do I recover without re-installing???
>>>>> Another system with same updates but with a different graphic card is
>>>>> running fine...
>>>>>
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>>>>> Antonio Montagnani
>>>>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Something to do with update to libdrm on  my system, see BZ:
>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477234
>>>>
>>>> Reverting lidrm to libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.x86_64 makes this "work for me".
>>>>
>>>> tom
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>>>> Tom London
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>>>
>>> Tom,
>>>
>>> how did you revert to the old libdrm?? I mean now that I can only use
>>> the box in text mode??
>>>
>>>
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>>> Antonio Montagnani
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>>>
>>
>> Ah... sorry for the lack of details.
>>
>> First, you need to have the appropriate package.  Don't know if your
>> system is i386 or x86_64, but here are links to both (i386 first,
>> x86_64 second):
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/libdrm/2.4.0/0.21.fc10/i386/libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.i386.rpm
>>
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/libdrm/2.4.0/0.21.fc10/x86_64/libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> You can download it if you don't have it already on your system by
>> using the "wget" command from text mode.
>>
>> For example, if you system is x86_64, you would use
>>
>> wget
>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/libdrm/2.4.0/0.21.fc10/x86_64/libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> Once the package is downloaded, you revert by running "rpm -Uvh
>> - --oldpackage".  For example, if you are running x86_64, the command
>> would be:
>>
>> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>>
>> Hope this helps.....
>>
>> tom
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>
> Tnx Tom
>
> I reverted to teh old libdrm, but It didn't help!!!when I start in
> graphic mode my system stops at anacron line flashing I think trying
> to start graphic server (and it doesn't succeed.
> If I issue in text mode a startx I get:
>
> Unable to load/open config file
> New driver is "intel"
> (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
> dlopen: libdrm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extension//libdri.so
> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (loader failed, 7)
> dlopen:libdrm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
> Failed to load module "dri" (loader failed, 7)
> (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
> (EE) Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration
>
> Fatal server error
> No screens found
> giving up
> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
> xinit: No such process (errno 3) Server error
>
> Any hint???
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> Antonio Montagnani
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>

Try running "/sbin/ldconfig" as root (i.e., boot to level 3, login,
etc.) and then try again.

That may help.

tom
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Tom London