My system is not working any more

[Antonio M]

2008/12/20 Tom London <selinux at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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...
>>>>>>>>
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>>>>>>>> Antonio Montagnani
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>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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
>>>>>>> - --
>>>>>>> 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??
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> 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
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>>
> Already did.  Feel free to jump on here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477234
>
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Well, applied this morning updates and my system stopped again with
the same problems...but I cannot revert to previous libdrm due to
dependencies problems.
What shall I try????

And as a general comment: why some bugs are so cyclic?? is something
wrong in philosophy of development??

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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag