[Nottingham] ironic Xserver failure

[Peter Chang]

On Fri, 6 Aug 2004, David Wolfson wrote:

> >No, I really doubt it's due to a multi-user environment. Agreed.  
> Trouble is it does seem to happen when running custom software.  
> worthy of later investigation...
> 
> > It's straightforward enough to use something like rsync to replicate a
> >filesystem's contents.
> Fairpoint.  Anotherthing to look into *when time allows*

Something like

$ rsync -avz localdirectorytobebackedup archivinghost:remotedirectory

works well. Install rsync and read its fairly friendly man page.

> 
> >Seeing as you're running Red Hat, find the relevant rpms. 
> 
> New even to grep!  But using #rpm -qa | grep XFree gives:
[snipped]
> XFree86-4.3.0-2
[snipped]
> So presumably I need XFree86-4.3.0-2 

Correct though you're lagging behind in as the errata has more up-to-date
versions if you're running RH9 (go to ftp.mirror.ac.uk or actually now
www.mirrorservice.org)

> So I tried:
> 
> # rpm -ivh --force XFree86-4.3.0-2
> and 
> # rpm -ivh --force XFree86-4.3.0-2.i386.rpm 
> 
> with the response: error: open of XFree86-4.3.0-2.90.55.i386.rpm
> failed: No such file or directory each time.

Erm, you are in the right directory which contains said rpm when you
execute that command?

> I've got the rpm man pages up, but does anyone know of an 'idiots
> guide to..'?

In the RH documentation...

> Having got some local advice from the one Tech-support guy who seems
> interested (and may even spare some time!) my plan is now to get all
> the XFree rpms off the installation cd and re-install the lot.  The
> more I read round this the more I get the feeling that I've lost font
> servers and libraries as well!

I think your libraries are still there otherwise the X clients wouldn't
work.

Peter



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