Bug 503606
| Summary: | startx not working - evidently due to some recent update | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Donald Cohen <don-redhat-z6y> |
| Component: | xorg-x11-server | Assignee: | Adam Jackson <ajax> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | mcepl, mschmidt, xgl-maint |
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-09-30 22:06:47 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Donald Cohen
2009-06-01 21:21:53 UTC
Created attachment 346143 [details]
This is the part of yum.log since the last successful start of X
Created attachment 346144 [details]
transcripts from shell of startx with and without default conf.
Thanks for the bug report. We have reviewed the information you have provided above, and there is some additional information we require that will be helpful in our diagnosis of this issue. Please attach your X server config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, if available), /var/log/dmesg, and X server log file (/var/log/Xorg.*.log) to the bug report as individual uncompressed file attachments using the bugzilla file attachment link below. We will review this issue again once you've had a chance to attach this information. Thanks in advance. Created attachment 346153 [details]
The one non-empty xorg.conf I tried
As I mentioned,
- This was used in only one of the three transcripts you can see.
- It was generated by Xorg -configure
- It never worked before the problem started.
So I'd be interested in what's wrong with it, but I don't think it has anything that will help you to diagnose the current problem.
Created attachment 346154 [details]
/var/log/dmesg
I guess this is supposed to tell you something about my hardware.
I'll be interested in hearing how it helps you.
I was hoping to hear something back by now. Not using X on that machine is getting old. I've now tried yum erase and reinstall of a few packages - the ones that I thought were implicated in the libraries that I had tried to replace. I'll attach a new transcript of those commands and the resulting startx, which seems to avoid a few of the error messages, and is shorter in general, but still not successful. Is there any estimate of how likely it is that useful information will appear here in any particular timeframe? Created attachment 346730 [details]
attempt to erase and reinstall packages and then again startx
I've upgraded to rawhide and X is now starting again. I have a (long) transcript of the upgrade and it again shows stuff like /sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib64/libphonon.so.4 is not an ELF file ... Let me know if you think it will help (4MB currently) I also had a lot of file system errors on the first start of rawhide (accepted the fsck defaults). I don't have a transcript of fsck. The complaints from ldconfig about invalid ELF files, Xorg failing to dlopen nouveau_dri.so, gnome-session failing to lookup symbols... all this could have been easily caused by the filesystem corruption. I'll close this bug as WORKSFORME, because Donald repaired the fs corruption and upgraded to F11 which worked for him. |