Preupgrade results in inability to start x

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 11/16/2011 01:14 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
> On 11/16/2011 11:40 AM, Patrick Boutilier wrote:
>>> On 11/16/2011 11:29 AM, Claude Jones wrote:
>>>> I'm not sure where to go with this. I had one machine preupgrade quite
>>>> nicely. This one is failing to start X. I can get to a prompt and I've
>>>> tried running yum update, which brought in a few new packages, but I
>>>> still can't get a desktop. I'm using the nouveau driver and looking
>>>> through the Xorg.0.log file doesn't yield much. The last video reference
>>>> I can spot in the log says:
>>>>
>>>> AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch
>>>> Nouveau(0): NVLeaveVT is called
>>>>
>>>> Googling on that second line brought up some posts about switching to
>>>> the VESA driver, but, I don't have an xorg.conf file, and I can't
>>>> generate one because system-config-display is not present on this
>>>> system...
>>>>
>>>> Can any one suggest something?
>>>
>>> Additional detail: The 'acorn' thingy appears during boot, and at the
>>> end of the process, the little rotating circle appears momentarily
>>> appears followed by the splash screen, then, after another moment, the
>>> splash screen goes away and a little computer icon appears in the middle
>>> of the screen with some text that says, "Oh no, something has gone
>>> wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Contact your
>>> administrator"....
>>>
>>
>> I have seen something like that when the system tried to login to Gnome
>> which wasn't installed. Does the kdm/gdm login prompt come up?
>>
>> Also, can you ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a console prompt? If so login and type
>> startx to see what happens.
>
> the login prompt never comes up - I can't remember if I had gnome fully
> installed on this machine, though I probably did, as I usually do
>
> I do get a prompt on Ctl-Alt-F2 and have tried to start X as both me
> (user), and as root, and it fails both ways - from root, I get this:
>
> xauth: file /root/.serverauth.1984 does not exist
> Fatal server error:
> Server is already active for display 0
> If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.xo-lock and start again
>
> Removing that file has no effect
>


Can you tell if you are running kdm or gdm?

ps ax|grep kdm

ps ax|grep gdm



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