Black Screen After YUM Update Revisited:

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Wed Mar 2 13:28:06 UTC 2005


Mark Sargent wrote:

(clock's wrong again)

> Hacksaw wrote:
> 
>> Unclear that it would do much. X and xfs are run by root, they should 
>> have full privs.
>>
>> I'd be interested to see what xfs had to say when it started up. You 
>> might take a look in /var/log/boot.log and /var/log/messages for lines 
>> from xfs.
>>  
>>
> Hi All,
> 
> as requested, lines from both logs, Cheers.
> 
> Mark Sargent
> 
> 
> ****From Boot.Log****

(snip)

> ****From messages****

> Mar  2 21:42:44 localhost xfs: cannot establish any listening sockets
> Mar  2 21:42:44 localhost xfs: xfs startup succeeded

That looks suspicious.

Try booting single user and doing:

# cd /tmp; rm -rf .font* .X*

Paul.




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