scrambled panel & x-session loss: back to the old drawing board

[charles f. zeitler]

--- "charles f. zeitler" <cfzeitler at yahoo.com> wrote:

> 
> --- Jim Cornette <fc-cornette at insight.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> > charles f. zeitler wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I hope the test is positive for a working system.
> > >>
> > >> Jim
> > >>
> > >> -- 
> > > nope. it crashed again. i'll take a fresh look at things tomorrow.
> > > 
> > > charles zeitler
> > 
> > I get the below on checks that I did for package integrity. You might 
> > need to use the --replacepkgs and --replacefiles options for rpm to 
> > replace all files if verify still shows an error.
> > 
> > I guess my eureka claim did not find gold in them there hills.
> > 
> > Jim
> > 
> >   locate libGL.so
> > /usr/lib/libGL.so
> > /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
> > /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
> > [jim at HP ~]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
> > mesa-libGL-6.5.2-16.fc8
> > [jim at HP- ~]$ rpm -qV mesa-libGL
> > [jim at HP- ~]$ ls -la /usr/lib/libGL.so*
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     10 2007-07-26 19:20 /usr/lib/libGL.so -> 
> > libGL.so.1
> > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 2007-07-26 19:14 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 -> 
> > libGL.so.1.2
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 454028 2007-07-25 14:46 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.2
> > 
> uh huh.  checked them. 
> rpm -V on mesa-libGL now (after rpm -e & rpm -i) gives a null, but:
> 
> S.?.....   /usr/bin/Xorg
> 
> could this be the culprit?
> 
> will try re-install of xorg-x11-server-Xorg...
> 
dam. that didn't help. if i can't figure out something else by friday,
i'll do a fresh install in some spare (backup) partitions, and bring
it up to date....

charles zeitler

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