no X after full upgrade from test3 to upgraded pkgs for test3

[Jim Cornette]

Harry Putnam wrote:
> After a full upgrade this morning from older test3 to the newest
> stuff, I'm unable to startx or to boot to runlevel 5.
> XFREE pkgs were some of those updated and now consist of:
> rpm -qa|grep XF
>   XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-42
>   XFree86-devel-4.3.0-42
>   XFree86-libs-4.3.0-42
>   XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42
>   XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-42
> 
> I'm pretty sure there should be a bunch more from
> rpm -qa|grep XF
> 
> Particulary the font packages
> 
> If these were not installed during upgrade there must be something
> fairly major wrong since I was runnning X before the upgrade.  I did
> the upgrade with no X running however.
> 
> attempting to start collecting the missing packages I tried:
>  up2date -i XFree86-100dpi-fonts  which is now hanging at the
>  dependancy resolving part and been there about 1/2 hr.
> 
> up2date version is up2date-4.12.1-4
> 
> I'd like to see a list of the full set of packages requred.  And try
> to piece them in by hand if necessary.
> 

I had the same problem and it killed X completely. There was no listing 
  for XFree86 being installed, after the upgrade.

I ended up running mc and ftp transferred the latest files from 
people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-42 directory 
and downloaded the files to a directory. Then I ran rpm -Uvh XF* when in 
the directory and the rpms installed and worked.

It seems that the problem was with a corrupted 
XFree86-base-fonts-<version> rpm. I tried to open up the rpm package 
with mc and this one would not open up at all. The other ones seemed to 
open up alright.

Here are the files that were available. Believe me! unstable packages 
worked better than that series of upgrades.

Jim

[root at xfree]# ls XF*
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-base-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-devel-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-doc-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-font-utils-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-14-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-15-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-2-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-100dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-ISO8859-9-75dpi-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-data-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGL-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-Mesa-libGLU-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-sdk-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-syriac-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-tools-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-truetype-fonts-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-twm-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-xauth-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-xdm-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-xfs-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-Xnest-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm
XFree86-Xvfb-4.3.0-42.i386.rpm