no X after full upgrade from test3 to upgraded pkgs for test3

[Harry Putnam]

Jim Cornette <redhat-jc at insight.rr.com> writes:

> I had the same problem and it killed X completely. There was no
> listing for XFree86 being installed, after the upgrade.
>
> I ended up running mc and ftp transferred the latest files from
> people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-42 directory
> and downloaded the files to a directory. Then I ran rpm -Uvh XF* when
> in the directory and the rpms installed and worked.
>
> It seems that the problem was with a corrupted
> XFree86-base-fonts-<version> rpm. I tried to open up the rpm package
> with mc and this one would not open up at all. The other ones seemed
> to open up alright.
>
> Here are the files that were available. Believe me! unstable packages
> worked better than that series of upgrades.

Trying your fix, I struck out at least temporarily.

rpm -Uvh XF*.rpm against the packages you listed runs into a
dependancy error:
  [root at exp reader]# rpm -Uvh XF*.rpm
  error: Failed dependencies:
          xinitrc is needed by XFree86-4.3.0-42
          xinitrc >= 3.13 is needed by XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-42
      Suggested resolutions:
          xinitrc-3.35-1.noarch.rpm
But then the suggested file is unknown to up2date (on rawhide)
   [root at exp reader]# up2date -i xinitrc-3.35-1.noarch.rpm
   
   Fetching package list for channel: rawhide...
   
   Fetching http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide//headers/header.info...
   ########################################
   
   Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rawhide...
   
   Fetching rpm headers...
   
   Name                                    Version        Rel     
   ----------------------------------------------------------   
   The following packages you requested were not found:
   xinitrc-3.35-1.noarch.rpm

I don't see it on Mikes site either.