Re: Fedora 19 bugfix causing plymouth black screen (ctrl+alt+F2 won’t work)

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sun Jul 14 02:06:59 UTC 2013


On 07/14/13 09:39, Powell, Michael wrote:
>> On 07/14/13 07:30, Powell, Michael wrote:
>>> Greshko, Ed wrote:>
>>>> /var/log/yum.log has date/time updates were applied
>>> Thanks, Ed. Unfortunately I don't need a timestamp of when the
>> updates were applied to the machine, but instead, I need a timestamp of
>> when those updates were posted to the yum server. My thought is that
>> since I know 191 updates of the 214 worked a few days ago, if I can
>> narrow down to the newest 23 packages, I might be able to find the
>> trouble maker.
>>
>> I'm not aware of a way to do it via yum.  But, you could always do it
>> manually by connecting to an update server via ftp or http and checking
>> the dates.  Should give you an idea.
> Thanks, Ed! I've narrowed it down:
>
> - xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.14.2-3.fc19.x86_64.rpm
> - xorg-x11-server-common-1.14.2-3.fc19.x86_64.rpm
>
> One or both of those packages hose my machine. I'm going to put xorg-x11-server* in my yum.conf for a while to avoid any more issues.
>
> Maybe I'll open a bug report, but I'm sure without some more info it wouldn't help.

If you can duplicate the problem you really should open a bugzilla.  You may not know what additional information is needed.....but if more info is needed you'll be asked to provide it by the person assigned.

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