rebuilding X from failed FC4 -> FC5 upgrade

[Jim Cornette]

Mark Haney wrote:
> I upgraded one of my machines to FC5 from 4 the other night and 
> everything went smoothly except on reboot.  Now X doesn't work.  It 
> appears that Xorg didn't completely install.  I've tried everything I 
> know, but can't get it completely uninstalled.  It tells me xorg-x11-xdm 
> is not installed, but when querying rpm I get the correct version from 
> FC5 (1.0.something).  Any ideas on how to completely blow X away and 
> re-install?
> 

Probably the best way to correct the xorg problem is to use the install 
media if DVD and use rpm -Uvh --replacefiles --replacepkgs xorg-x11*.rpm 
which should install all xorg-x11 packages and overwrite the files 
previously installed.

Two questions before you attempt to remove and replace X:

- Did you try to start X in runlevel 3 using startx?

- Did you try to run system-config-display --reconfig in runlevel 3 as 
root to try to reconfigure X?

Jim