xorg install - X won't start completely

Wayne Steenburg w.steenburg at myactv.net
Mon Mar 22 02:36:33 UTC 2004


On Sun, 2004-03-21 at 18:30 -0500, Jim Shepherd wrote:
> Performed the xorg upgrade via yum using the methods mentioned many
> times on this list: install xorg*; add /usr/X11R6/lib to ld.so.conf; run
> ldconfig; and restart xfs.  When X is starting, I get the blue
> background and hourglass for a few seconds, then it goes to black for a
> few more seconds, and then repeats this cycle until a text scree comes
> up saying that X was restarted x times in the last 90 seconds.  I have
> looked through the XFree86.0.log, messages, and dmesg files, but can;t
> find what's going wrong.  I have appended the contents of these files
> for reference.  Any ideas are appreciated.
> 
> -Jim Shepherd

This may not help, but when I installed xorg X wouldn't start either.
Something about the fonts not loading. Running:

/sbin/chkconfig --add xfs
 
as root did the trick for me. Good luck.

Wayne Steenburg





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