[plug] RH Upgrade / X problem

[Richard Sharpe]

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
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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