Re: yum trashes fc4

From: Philip Wright (pvwrght_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 09/20/05 

Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:22:54 -0400

> 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.
>
>
Thanks Lenard, but I think my problem may be a little different. My
system hung before it got to the xorg updates. I was getting some
PAM-securetty errors and so I checked the /etc/securetty file and it was
trashed. I replaced it with a virgin file from another FC4 machine and I
can log in on tty1. I think that the console device may have been
pranged. I may have to rollback the last PAM updates and was wondering
if this has happened to anyone else?

Thanks,
Trashed