X11 issue after using up2date
jludwig
wralphie at comcast.net
Tue Apr 13 16:53:14 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 12:34, Ryan wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just installed FC1 last night and let it ran the updates, there were
> 100 of them. Then after it errored out half way through, my computer
> wouldn't run right. No X-Window programs were opening, i could get to
> terminal sessions etc. So I decided to reboot (old habit), then when my
> system came up I was greeted with: "'X' is respawning to fast...
> suspending for 5 minutes" or something like that. So I logged in to the
> command line and tried 'startx'. I then was greeted with this message:
> "error while loading shared libraries libXmau.so.1: cannot open shared
> object file: No such File or Directory"
>
> So then after some searching around at the red hat site, I found how to
> invoke the X Configator for RH9 so I tried (can't remember the exact
> command but this is close):
> redhat-configure-XFree86
> Same error as startx. So is it possible that up2date messed up my
> X-Windows? Is there a way to recover except by reinstall?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ryan
what has most likely happened is that some programs/files are upgraded
for X and not others. This is my yum.conf (go ahead and use these
mirrors).
As root run the command <yum upgrade> and hopefully this will fix your
system.
[main]cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest
distroverpkg=fedora-release
tolerant=1
exactarch=1
[base]
name=Fedora Core 1 Base :: [http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov]
baseurl=http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/fedora-core/1/i386/os
http://dag.atrpms.net/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag
http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag
updates-released]
name=Fedora Core 1 Updates :: [http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov]
baseurl=http://mirror.phy.bnl.gov/fedora-core/updates/1/i386
[fedora-extra] name=Fedora Core 1 Extras :: [http://www.fedora.us]
baseurl=http://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora.us/fedora/fedora/1/i386/yum/stable
--
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
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