Re: yum trashes fc4

From: Lenard (Lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 09/20/05 

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:07:15 GMT

Philip Wright wrote:

> I have been running FC4 on an ASUS A7V8X-X without problems
> for months. I was updating the system with yum over the weekend
> and it hung. When I reboot it says starting runlevel 5, but there
> is no X. I get a text mode login and then get a prompt that says
> bash-3.00# (looks like a rescue mode prompt). Anyone else have
> this happen?

This is a known bug with the recent xorg updates released this past
Friday, see;
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=168564

The fix is easy but it takes a bit of work, first reboot your system
into runlevel 3, this is done by pressing the 'Esc' key when the boot
menu is displayed. Select the Linux boot choice and press the 'e' key.
Select the line that begins with something like;

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6

At the end of the line add a space followed by the number three (3),
when done press the 'Enter' key and then the 'b' key. When ready log on
as normal suppling your username and password.

Now create a list of the installed xorg rpms on your system;

rpm -qa 'xorg*' | sort

Using this list download the earlier version of these packages from the
Fedora site using wget. Just replace the version number with the
previous version (6.8.2-37.FC4.45.) that is still available. Here let
me help get you started, the line below is one long line with a space
after the 'wget' portion and before the rest of the command (the second
line);

wget
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/4/i386/xorg-x11-6.8.2-37.FC4.45.i386.rpm

When done downloading the replacement xorg rpm files as root or
equivalent where the files are located at type something like;
rpm -Uvh xorg*.rpm --force

When the replacement rpm process is done still as root or equivalent
type something like; init 5

You should now see your normal graphical log on screen. The only thing
left to do is logout of the console session. Press the three key combo
of Ctrl+Alt+F1 and type the command; logout, when done press the three
key combo of Ctrl+Alt+F7 to get back to the graphical log on screen. 

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