Re: Failure of X in RH9 -Twice- Really frustrating
From: Vwakes (vwakeNOSPAM100_at_softhome.net)
Date: 09/08/03
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Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 14:25:57 -0700
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 SRIKANTH NS wrote:
>Vwakes wrote:
>>
>>> You have been of much help.
>>
>> You didn't say what's the output of
>>
>> $ rpm -qV XFree86
>
>the output is
[...
>missing /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libfreetype.a
>missing /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/libpcidata.a
...]
That's one majorly hosed XFree86. I haven't seen such on a power failure
but you never know coz it hoses so randomly.
I think you need to run system wide pkg verification via rpm.
>I did shutdown -rF now as suggested in a mailing list and yes , it
>revealed a FS with lot of errors (unconnected inodes, wrong count
>etc,,)
>
>Then I reinstalled XFree*.* from first CD. Now X is working. Am left
>wondering how a file system error has crept in as I never shutdown
>improperly and I have UPS backup for 15 minutes too.
Yes. Unless your system was unable to shutdown within 15 minutes of the
power outage. Maybe a hang somewhere while shutting down of services.
Gl
V.
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