Bill Davidsen wrote: > I did an upgrade last night (fc13, x86) to get the security updates, and > on the reboot X doesn't come up. I think I've seen this before, but can > someone jog my memory what it messed up? And thoughts as to why would be > appreciated as well, of course. > > end of messages: http://rd.and.net/SJhX3LWZ6 > Maybe I should call this one FIXED, because I am not sure how it got broken. After the upgrade my root filesystem was very low on space. Rather than play with sizes (not on LVM) I decided to move the two GB of /usr/share to another partition and mount that. What I did: - defined another partition on sdb - created a filesystem on it - mounted the new filesystem on /mnt/tmp - copied /usr/share to /mnt/tmp (yes with -r) - checked that the directories were the same - dropped to single user mode - removed (rm /usr/share/*) all the old content - umounted the new filesystem - remounted the new filesystem on /usr/share - got the new filesystem UUID and put in /etc/fstab - rebooted and got no video Having tried everything else, I used restorecon to restore the labels on the /usr/share filesystem. Rebooted and got video. I am reasonably sure I used "cp -ra" to copy the files, and if I didn't I would have used rsync with the "a" option which also should copy all the label information. The clue was an sealert saying that the access was blocked to /usr/share/locale, and I didn't hit on it right away because without X the warning didn't pop up, it wasn't until I thought of selinux blocking some trojan in the update that I checked. No trojan, just a failure in the copy. I'm unable to produce a failure in either cp or rsync, so I will assume either my typo or this keyboard which has been known to drop a character now and again. Thanks to the two people who contributed some good thoughts on possible causes, they both proposed workarounds for other possible causes of a problem of this type. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
