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Steven F. LeBrun wrote:
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Mike Cloaked wrote:
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Dave Roberts-12 wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hmm... I don't think it's just your problem. I'm having similar issues.
After the latest update, Emacs refuses to run in X (runs okay in a term
window with "emacs -nw") and Firefox keeps hanging randomly. There
doesn't appear to be any error message at all. If I start Emacs from a
menu pick or a panel button, it displays the "Starting Emacs Text
Editor" application button in the lower panel, but that eventually goes
away and no window appears. If I try to start Emacs from a term window
("emacs"), it just hangs forever. Firefox keeps hanging randomly, too.
...
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I am now wondering if this is due to the broken libX11 package
libX11-1.1.5-1.fc10.i386 - a number of issues have followed that - and a new
version (-2) is pushed to testing a few hours back....maybe that will fix
things?
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It does look like version 1.1.5-1 of libX11 is the problem with Emacs
and other X window programs hanging when they startup. Downgrading to
version 1.1.4-5 fixed the problem. I would have used the previous
version 1.1.4-6 but found the rpm's for version 1.1.4-5 of libX11 and
libX11-devel first.<br>
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One problem occurred during the downgrade, my laptop would no longer
boot up. It would display "GRUB" and hang. It appears that the MBR
became corrupted. This was fixed by reinstalling the Grub stage1
binary from my existing /boot/grub partition/directory. <br>
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Directions for reinstalling the Grub stage1 binary to the MBR can be
found in the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showpost.php?p=431055">Booting
from Second Disk</a> thread in the Fedora Forums. In order for follow
the directions for reinstalling the stage1 binary to the MBR, I booted
my system using a Fedora 10 Live CD and mounted my /boot partition
before running grub manually to perform the reinstall. In my case,
"mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3" made my /boot partition and
/boot/grub/stage1 file available.<br>
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Quote: <em>"The objection to fairy stories is that they tell children
there are dragons. But children have always known there are dragons.
Fairy stories tell children that dragons can be killed."</em><br>
-- G.K. Chesterton</p>
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The corruption of my MBR which caused me to have to reinstall the
grub/stage1 binary was probably not a direct result of my downgrading
the libX11 package. I suspect that I shot myself in the foot when I
tried to downgrade just the libX11 and forgot to downgrade libX11-devel
at the same time resulting in conflicts. My system hung during "rpm
-U" command and I Control-C'ed out of this initial attempt to
downgrade. I suspect this is when my MBR became unstable.<br>
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<title>Fate of the Peacock</title>
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Steven F. LeBrun<br>
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Quote: <em>"One day a peacock. The next day a feather duster."</em><br>
—
Democrat Patrick Quinn, Illinois lieutenant governor
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