Upgrade RedHat 8 to Fedora Core 2

Chadley Wilson chadley at pinteq.co.za
Fri May 21 06:56:07 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 16:41, Jason Kretzer wrote:
> Good morning list, 
> 
> Last night I tried to install Fedora Core 2 and I hit
> a snag.  Here is my process that I used.  I first
> backed up my important files.  Then I ran the media
> check on the CD's, all passed.  Next, I installed
> Fedora Core 2.  It gave me an option to upgrade, as RH
> normally does, so I tried it for fun.  Everything went
> splendidly until the reboot.  I rebooted after
> upgrading, and I have inittab set to boot to run level
> 5.  Well, it did not get that far, it booted to a
> login prompt.  I logged in as root and tried to
> startx.  I have a GeForce 2 video card and I know they
> can be tricky with the drivers and when I startx I got
> an error about how the driver wasn't loaded into the
> kernel.  No problem, I just used the old driver to
> upgrade to the new, using nvidia-installer --upgrade. 
> So, it successfully updated the driver and everything
> looked fine.  So, I startx again.  I get the Nvidia
> splash screen then I can see the X mouse pointer for a
> split second before it drops back to the command-line.
>  I can see the driver loaded fine but at the bottom is
> the new error message(actually it was not new, it was
> there before I updated the dirver as well but I wanted
> to see if updating the driver would fix it as well). 
> Bear with me, this was late last night and I might not
> have it exactly and this is a paraphrase--- 
> "ssh-agent cannot find libcrypt.so.#(some number)
> cannot find the file specified..." 
> 
> Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?  Also, why
> would this stop X from starting? 
> 
> Thanks, 
> 
> -Jason
Hi Jason 
I have the same card and the same trouble with FC1. Turns out I did
remove glcore from the /etc/X11/XFree86config  file.
CHeck it out it's in the readme.
Cheers

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