From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.0.3705) Description of problem: while trying to install the nvidia proprietary xfree drivers the xserver didn't start up. i got a error dialog saying: "i cannot start the x server (your graphical interface). it is likely...etc etc" this dialog had ok and cancel buttons. well i think they were ok and cancel buttons because the text was unreadable... choosing the one on the right closed the dialog. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. misconfigure appropiately your xfree server 2. reboot your rh8 3. Additional info:
Is this due to the video data corruption due to attempted invokation of the nVidia driver on your system? Otherwise - you might wish to refer to Bug 78616 - since nVidia _does_ invoke its own closed, binary-only driver in the kernel and something bad happened to your system.
i dont think the nvidia proprietary driver is the culprit. i've done this test: renamed the /etc/x11/xf86config file, so that the xserver can't start. then i've rebooted. i got the usual dialog with unreadable fonts. then i did an lsmod, and the nvidia driver wasn't loaded. so it seems that it's not a problem with nvidia. i think that the dialog comes from /usr/bin/gdm-binary.
We basically need a unicode-capable ncurses
From the description, I don't see why this one would be related to dialog or ncurses, since it states that the "text" is unreadable. A font problem would be (going up) the terminal emulator, some issue with the fonts specified, or the X server.
sounds like the locale is non-English/non-latin-1, and the console is not Unicode. Need to know what the output of "locale" is.
here's what i get when typing locale into a terminal: LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL=
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 74911 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.