My system is not working any more

[Antonio M]

2008/12/20 Tom London <selinux at gmail.com>:
> 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...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 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
>>>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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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>>> Tom London
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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???
>> --
>> Antonio Montagnani
>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>
>
> 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

great!!!!
It works...

Shall I file a bug against libdrm???

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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag