X server not running after install/deinstall VMware-tools

[Francisco Garcia]

Hi Tom,

You should never need to reinstall packages (unless badly broken /
overwritten binaries, etc).

Xorg can be reconfigured with system-config-display tool ; best run in
runlevel 3 in case X need to be restarted. Take into account that most
X keyb shortcuts (ctrl+alt+f1 won't properly work if you're running
vmware from a GNU/Linux host :-) )


On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 11:44, Adriaansen, Tom (RB-NL)
<Tom.Adriaansen at reedbusiness.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've installed RHEL 4.7 on a ESX VMware machine.
>
> [root at rbndtcgxwo601 /]# cat /etc/redhat-release
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 7)
>
>
>
>  It worked quite nice until I installed the VMware tools.
>
> So I uninstalled the VMware tools, but stil I can't get my Xserver
> running. The screen is flipping between the Cross and a screen full of
> vertical barrs and sometimes there is the blue ring (consisted out of
> balls) rotating. But still there is no X screen.
>
> Now I thought to reinstall the X software (is it xorg??)
>
> How can I do this with rpm or with up2date?
>
> I couldn't get is to force install over the same X software.!!!
>
>
>
> # rpm -qa | grep xorg
>
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> fonts-xorg-75dpi-6.8.2-1.EL
>
> xorg-x11-devel-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-twm-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-tools-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> fonts-xorg-base-6.8.2-1.EL
>
> fonts-xorg-100dpi-6.8.2-1.EL
>
> xorg-x11-xdm-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
> xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.2-1.EL.52
>
>
>
> Met vriendelijke Groeten,
>
>
>
> Tom Adriaansen