F11: X Startup Problems
Dave Cross
davorg at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 13:56:24 UTC 2009
This morning I was using my desktop machine without a problem. I ran a
"yum update" to pick up the most recent updates. This afternoon I
rebooted the machine and now X won't start.
Well X starts to some extent. I get the login screen, but when I type
in my username and password I get a blank screen with a spinning
cursor for a couple of seconds before being dumped back to the login
screen.
I've booted the machine into single user mode and edited /etc/inittab
so that the machine boots to level 3. I know get a text-based login
which I can use to access the system. I tried to run 'startx' to go
into X. The screen goes blank as if X is starting, but nothing else
happens. I've attached a Xorg.0.log from one of those aborted attempts
to start X.
My suspicion is that this is caused by something in the yum update
that I ran this morning - but I can't see anything that would
obviously affect X.
Any advice much appreciated.
Cheers,
Dave...
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