RE: Can not login GNOME environment in Red Hat Linux 7.0... Help me!

["CHAN Chow Chin, David" <ccchan my ncs-i com>]

hang on... Isn't RedHat 7.0 supposed to be compatible with the problematic
Intel 810e chipset?
I know RedHat 6.2 isn't. I had to do a lot of things b4 I could get
X-Windows to start.

Just a thought.
-David-

-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Drew [mailto:mdrew redhat com]
Sent: Tuesday, 03 April, 2001 5:40 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Cc: thanhtrung2020 yahoo com
Subject: Re: Can not login GNOME environment in Red Hat Linux 7.0...
Help me!


On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Nguyen Thanh Trung wrote:

> When I do 'startx' command, I can't login GNOME
> environment and get the error message( file
> /var/log/Xfree86.0)
>
> (II) Loading font Bitmap
> (II) LoadModule: "pcidata"
> (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata
> (II) UnloadModule: "pcidata"
> (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not
> exist, 0)

That's bad. :)

> OPERATION SYSTEM: Red Hat Linux 7.0
> + XFree86 4.0.1
> + Kernel 2.2.16

okay...

> Apr  2 03:06:26 localhost modprobe: modprobe:
> Apr  2 03:06:26 localhost modprobe: Can't locate
> module usb-uhci

Bad -- another missing module

> Apr  2 03:06:26 localhost rc.sysinit: Initializing USB
> controller (usb-uhci):  failed

Because the module isn't there (doh!)

> Apr  2 03:06:31 localhost depmod: can't handle
> sections of type 524288
> Apr  2 03:06:31 localhost depmod: depmod: ***
> Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/cpia_usb.o
> Apr  2 03:06:31 localhost depmod: depmod: ***
> Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/pcmcia/3c574_cs.o
> Apr  2 03:06:31 localhost depmod: depmod: ***
> Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o
> Apr  2 03:06:31 localhost depmod: depmod: ***
> Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/pcmcia/aha152x_cs.o
> Apr  2 03:06:31 localhost depmod: depmod: ***
> Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/pcmcia/airo_cs.o
> Apr  2 03:06:31 localhost depmod: depmod: ***
> Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/pcmcia/cb_enabler.o
> Apr  2 03:06:31 localhost depmod: depmod: ***
> Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/pcmcia/ds.o
> Apr  2 03:06:31 localhost depmod: depmod: ***
> Unresolved symbols in
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/pcmcia/dummy_cs.o

Looks like large chunks of things are missing...


> 	File /var/log/Dmesg:
> Linux version 2.2.16-22 (root porky devel redhat com)
...
> Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory:
> 59M
> agpgart: Detected an Intel i810 DC100 Chipset.
> agpgart: detected 4MB dedicated video ram.
> agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xd0000000

That looks good, agpgart is loading and setting itself up properly.

Having the aperture set at 64MB on a 64MB machine is a little...iffy, but
shouldn't matter.

My initial guess would be that you did an rpm -Uvh on a kernel, and didn't
reconfigure /etc/lilo.conf or run /sbin/lilo to reset the Main Boot Record
at the start of the drive.  It looks like most if not all of your kernel
modules (drivers) are missing, which is a symptom of that.  This usually
means you upgraded your kernel via up2date, which currently is a Bad Thing
(tm) because up2date doesn't know how to do kernels yet.

Did up2date list the kernel on the "Skipped" Page, or on the "Package
Selection" page?  We've heard that this is a problem (the kernel is
supposed to be on the "skipped" page for obvious reasons, but that page
can be confusing in up2date) but have not been able to replicate it in
support.

Thanks,

Matt

-- 
Matt Drew
Peer Review team lead and Bughunter
Red Hat Consumer Services



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