[plug] RH Upgrade / X problem

[Dave T Burbidge]

Richard (and others),

Tried that ... The three finger salute is how I'm shutting the box down ...
even then it doesn't recognise it straight away...

Repeated ALT-CTRL-F1 (... and the rest) don't do anything ... at a guess, X
isn't starting cleanly, but init notices that it's stopped, and tries to
respawn it ... and yes, I tried Alt-CTRL-BS earlier... :(

What do you reckon my chances of telnetting to the box are ... it's either
that or I'll need a boot disk...

OK, so I can telnet to the box (I'll blame the Black Label JB for not thinking
of it earlier :)   ... and JOE sucks under the standard Loser95 telnet client.

OK, at run level 3, when I attempt to start X, I get the following (just after
the stuff that says the screen drivers are fine (I know how to fix them)) -

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The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
Error: bad length in Geometry
       Output file "/var/tmp/server-0.xkm" removed
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
_FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1'
Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

<blah about reporting problems>

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).

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Any ideas?

BTW, running Xconfigurator didn't help - it even started X to test the display
config fine... :(

Thanks.

Dave

Richard Sharpe wrote:

> At 05:42 PM 6/30/00 +0900, you wrote:
> >At 08:29 PM 6/30/00 +0800, you wrote:
> >>Greetings!
> >>
> >>Just upgraded from RH 6.0 to RH 6.2 using APC cover CD ... I just did a
> >>straight upgrade - no mucking around selecting / deselecting packages.
> >>Everything boots fine until login. I'm on the RunLevel to boot straight
> >>in X ... and it starts flickering the screen between graphics & text
> >>modes (cycles about once per second) ... which is completely useless for
> >>me :(
> >
> >Ctrl-Alt-F1 should get you back to a console. Then log in and go to run
> >level 3.
> >
> >Next, type 'startx >& log.log' and when the flicking starts, type
> >Ctrl-Alt-Del to shut down the X server.
>
> Aarrghhhh, that won't work. Need Ctrl-Alt-BS to shut down the X server.
>
> >Then go and look in the log file to see if any modelines were OK, or if
> >there are any errors.
> >
> >You may need to check the X config file /etc/X11/XF86Config.
> >
> >HTH.
> >
> >>X worked fine yesterday before the upgrade.
> >>
> >>I know what to do to fix it (well, where to go & play :)  how can I get
> >>it to settle down so I can login?
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >>
> >>Dave :)
> >>
> >>----------------------------------------
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> >>
> >>This Murphy person has a LOT to answer for :)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Regards
> >-------
> >Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
> >Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
> >Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
> >Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course
> >Author: First Australian 2-day, intensive, hands-on Samba course
> >
> >
> >
>
> Regards
> -------
> Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
> Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
> Co-author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
> Author: First Australian 5-day, intensive, hands-on Linux SysAdmin course
> Author: First Australian 2-day, intensive, hands-on Samba course