[PlanetCCRMA] reinstalling/repairing X

[Gangalino]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:37 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 13:26 -0500, Gangalino wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 10:01 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 11:33 -0500, Gangalino wrote:
> > > > How do I find out which particular version of X is installed and what
> > > > would be a good course to take to repair a broken X server after an
> > > > upgrade?
> > > 
> > > Which version of fedora?
> > 
> > I forgot how to get that version also.
> > /proc/version shows Linux version 2.6.20-1.2320.fc5
> > (brewbuilder@hs20-bc2-2.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.1 20070105
> > (Red Hat 4.1.1-51)) #1 Tue Jun 12 18:50:38 EDT 2007
> > 
> > I think it's still FC5.  ???
> 
> That would be fc5. But you don't seem to be running the Planet CCRMA
> kernel. Are you a Planet CCRMA user?

Yes, of course!
It started failing after yum upgrade or update, it's been a while now,
so I forget which one.
> 
> > > What is failing? How? What error message do you see
> > > in /var/log/Xorg*log?
> > 
> > It's mainly complaining about:
> > 
> > "Warning: font renderer for ".snf.Z" already registered at priority 0
> > Warning: font renderer for ".snf.gz" already registered at priority 0
> > Warning: font renderer for ".bdf" already registered at priority 0
> > Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.Z" already registered at priority 0
> > Warning: font renderer for ".bdf.gz" already registered at priority 0
> > Warning: font renderer for ".pmf" already registered at priority 0
> > FreeFontPath: FPE "unix/:7100" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing."
> 
> And? What do you see? How does it fail. 
> 
> This may be a question for the fedora lists, not Planet CCRMA. 
> 
It fails after "startx"
the screen hangs on a blank blue screen, no icons or applications show
up. So I try to restart it by "CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE" and that's when I see
the errors on the console.

> > I've attached the entire log.
> 
> Did not make it here. 
> Those are warnings, do you see any errors?
> -- Fernando
> 
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