xfs and gdm

Clyde E. Kunkel linuxfool2231 at cox.net
Thu Jan 19 17:28:50 PST 2006


Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> I am a new member of this list so forgive me if I breach a protocol.  I
> have been having a problem with 3 Fedora Core 4 systems.  Each system
> has functioned well until last weekend the 14th of January.  In each
> case the gui login screen became unusable giving me the appearance of a
> resolution problem.  One machine was a fresh install that functioned
> without difficulty until a system update was done with yum -y update.
> After the update I have been unable to use the gui to login nor will it
> respond to startx.  
> 
> In looking at this problem in each case xfs is not running and gives me
> a "segmentation fault" error when I try to run it manually.
> 
> I posted this problem on the Fedora user's list, but have not been able
> to glean a solution.  I did report this to Red Hat via:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178073
> 
> but RH referred me back to the Fedora user's list as well as xorg.  
> 
> Has anyone else reported this scenario with the recent update of xorg in
> Fedora?  Otherwise, I would sure appreciate your help in solving the
> problem.
> 

Does it look like:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=178115

?  Tho on a rawhide installation, maybe something similar?

-- 
Regards,

Old Fart



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