Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 78858
redhat-config-xfree86 doesn't start when existing config is wrong
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:04 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-5 i686) Description of problem: After a kickstart which had "start X on boot" but no configuration for the graphical component, the computers try to start X and then fails. After logging in, I tried to run redhat-config-xfree86, and it refused to start, giving an error about not finding the correct module. After copying a known good XF86Config, I could start redhat-config-xfree86. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.kickstart machine with startxonboot, but do not configure the graphics 2.boot (and fail to get into runlevel 5) 3.log in and run redhat-config-xfree86 Actual Results: Program refused to start, and gave error message (which I forgot to write down); something about device not loaded Expected Results: the config tool should have started Additional info:
It tries to first use the existing config file, but then tries to do a new one from scratch. I have to have more information to figure out why it failed in your case. Could you retry and save the full output and the X logs?
Any more info here? We're kind of stuck without more data about the error message that you saw when redhat-config-xfree86 failed to start.
Closing due to lack of information.