[FC4] yum update, downgrade X, TTYs dark

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Mon May 15 10:33:49 UTC 2006


Jean-Louis Leroy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> a while ago I did a 'yum update' on my FC4. After rebooting X didn't
> work anymore so I re-installed the X RPMs as per the original FC4
> distro. I could get everything back to work except for one thing: when
> I switch to a text-mode console (e.g. via Ctrl-Alt-F1) it isn't there:
> only a black screen. Well actually it *is* there because I can log in
> (typing in the blind), run a command (e.g. touch /tmp/tttt), switch
> back to graphical mode and confirm that I did actually log in.
> 
> I don't know where to start investigating for this. Ideas? Thanks...

This was a well-know bug in the original FC4 distro. Updates were 
published that fix it. It seems you need not-quite-the-latest updates.

Paul.




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