F11: X Startup Problems

Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com
Sat Sep 12 14:26:37 UTC 2009


2009/9/12 Dave Cross <davorg at gmail.com>:
> 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.

I've just found another thread discussing this issue. Seems to be a
problem with xorg-x11-server-Xorg. Downgrading that has fixed the
problem.

Sorry for posting without checking the archives first.

Dave...




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