Bad update - X11 corrupted

Martin Stone martin.stone at db.com
Wed Apr 14 16:43:07 UTC 2004


I disagree... let's find out more about what the problem is first before we 
encourage him to blow away his whole install.

Keith wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 09:07, Dick Brown wrote:
> 
>>Hi all,
>>    I recently decided to upgrade from RH8 to Fedora.  I downloaded the 
>>.iso files, burned them and installed without a hitch (checked the 
>>md5sum and the finished CDs first).
>>    Unfortunately, when I performed the system update, the X11 package 
>>was corrupted.  Now I can't boot into Fedora normally.  I can get in 
>>through the "Linux rescue" from the install disk, but I'm afraid I don't 
>>know what to do from there.  I'm at that dangerous stage where I know 
>>enough to get myself into trouble, but not enough to get myself out, so 
>>I don't really want to touch anything without some advice first.  Is 
>>there an easy fix to this?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Dick
> 
> 
> Did you make a boot disk when you changed to fedora? 
>  You could use 
> linux single 
> on the command line to boot in single mode. 
> There is a way to create a rescue disk on the
> the first CD-ROM.  
> 
>  The best thing to do is to backup your /home directory and maybe 
> /usr/local if you need to and do a clean install. If you have 
> other areas with data you need to save then also include those.
> 
> tar cvfz home.tar.gz /home
> tar cvfz local.tar.gz /usr/local
> then you need to copy or move them to another disks
> or burn them to a cdrom using cdrecord.
> 
> 






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