Destroyed x.org

[achoens at frontiernet.net]

This may be quite a bit more serious than I suspected.  No matter what I
do, the rhgb client tries to start to, but adding sigle to the kernel
arguments did succeed in getting me a command prompt.

I then went to:

/var/cache/yum/development/packages

and tried to:

rpm -Uvh --force xorg*6.8.1-6*

I thought this would fix all my woes.  Instead, it made the mystery even
deeper.  I was told that /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 has invalid ELF headers.

I tried booting this was twice to see if somehow the kernel had any
affect on this, although I couldn't see how it could.  I used the
kernel that came with T2 and the latest one yum downloaded yesterday.
Same result either way.

It would appear that yum trashed more than just my x setup.

If anyone has any ideas I sure would like to hear them.

--andy


Quoting Paul Iadonisi <pri.rhl3 at iadonisi.to>:

> On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 10:36 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, Douglas Furlong wrote:
> >
> > > The boot parameter "3" brings the system to "multi user, no X".
> >
> > The OP has problem with runlevel-3 - hence 'single' was sugested.
>
>   I'm suspecting that since there was a problem both with rhgb
> stilling
> being run *and* runlevel 3 being ignored that maybe the OP hit escape
> instead of enter after changing the grub kernel parameters.
>   I'd suggest trying again, but after hitting escape before the three
> second timeout expires and hitting 'a' to edit the kernel command
> line
> (placing the cursor at the end of the command line), delete the rhgb
> parameter and add '3' and then be sure to hit enter to boot the
> kernel
> with the new command line.
>
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