My system is not working any more

[Tom London]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:05 PM, Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/12/20 Tom London <selinux at gmail.com>:
>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Antonio M
>> <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 2008/12/20 Tom London <selinux at gmail.com>:
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>>>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Antonio M  wrote:
>>>>> 2008/12/20 Tom London :
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>>>>>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Antonio M  wrote:
>>>>>>> I applied today's updates and after re-booting my laptop is not
>>>>>>> starting any more graphically.I get only a flashing screen and I am
>>>>>>> using an intel graphic driver.
>>>>>>> I do not know how to recover, just for info, I started my system in
>>>>>>> runlevel=3 and then I issued a startx but nothing happened.
>>>>>>> At a first investigation, I didn't find /usr/bin/system-config-display .....
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What happened?? and how do I recover without re-installing???
>>>>>>> Another system with same updates but with a different graphic card is
>>>>>>> running fine...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Antonio Montagnani
>>>>>>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Something to do with update to libdrm on  my system, see BZ:
>>>>>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477234
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reverting lidrm to libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.x86_64 makes this "work for me".
>>>>>>
>>>>>> tom
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>>>>>> Tom London
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>>>>>
>>>>> Tom,
>>>>>
>>>>> how did you revert to the old libdrm?? I mean now that I can only use
>>>>> the box in text mode??
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Antonio Montagnani
>>>>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah... sorry for the lack of details.
>>>>
>>>> First, you need to have the appropriate package.  Don't know if your
>>>> system is i386 or x86_64, but here are links to both (i386 first,
>>>> x86_64 second):
>>>>
>>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/libdrm/2.4.0/0.21.fc10/i386/libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.i386.rpm
>>>>
>>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/libdrm/2.4.0/0.21.fc10/x86_64/libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>> You can download it if you don't have it already on your system by
>>>> using the "wget" command from text mode.
>>>>
>>>> For example, if you system is x86_64, you would use
>>>>
>>>> wget
>>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/libdrm/2.4.0/0.21.fc10/x86_64/libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>> Once the package is downloaded, you revert by running "rpm -Uvh
>>>> - --oldpackage".  For example, if you are running x86_64, the command
>>>> would be:
>>>>
>>>> rpm -Uvh --oldpackage libdrm-2.4.0-0.21.fc10.x86_64.rpm
>>>>
>>>> Hope this helps.....
>>>>
>>>> tom
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>>>> Tom London
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>>>
>>> Tnx Tom
>>>
>>> I reverted to teh old libdrm, but It didn't help!!!when I start in
>>> graphic mode my system stops at anacron line flashing I think trying
>>> to start graphic server (and it doesn't succeed.
>>> If I issue in text mode a startx I get:
>>>
>>> Unable to load/open config file
>>> New driver is "intel"
>>> (==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
>>> dlopen: libdrm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extension//libdri.so
>>> (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (loader failed, 7)
>>> dlopen:libdrm.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>>> (EE) Failed to load /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/intel_drv.so
>>> Failed to load module "dri" (loader failed, 7)
>>> (EE) open /dev/fb0: No such file or directory
>>> (EE) Screen(s) found but none have a usable configuration
>>>
>>> Fatal server error
>>> No screens found
>>> giving up
>>> xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X server
>>> xinit: No such process (errno 3) Server error
>>>
>>> Any hint???
>>> --
>>> Antonio Montagnani
>>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>>
>>
>> Try running "/sbin/ldconfig" as root (i.e., boot to level 3, login,
>> etc.) and then try again.
>>
>> That may help.
>>
>> tom
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>
> Tom
>
> great!!!!
> It works...
>
> Shall I file a bug against libdrm???
>
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> Antonio Montagnani
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>
Already did.  Feel free to jump on here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477234

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Tom London