Re: (no subject)

[Michael Schwendt <mschwendt yahoo com>]

On 2001-05-31, Ted Clark wrote:

>> can someone point me in the right direction
>
>Sounds like you might be crapping out loading the X xerver.  Try
>pressing <ctrl><alt><backspace> on the gray screen, see what happens.
>It should throw you back to a Linux console screen.

Hmmm, if a display manager is running, this would just fire up
that one again and again. Hence I suggest CTRL+ALT+F1 (or F2,F3
any virtual console), then log in as root, and run

rpm -qa | grep XFree | xargs -t -n 1 rpm --verify

to see whether any binaries in the XFree86 packages turn up as
damaged (notice the '5' then for MD5 checksum mismatch). Erasing
faulty packages and re-installing them should fix any problems with
XFree86.

And if XFree86 is not the only damaged component, the same can be
done with any other package.