-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 26, 2002 at 03:17:32AM +0100, Peter Boy wrote: > Due to an power outage last night XFree doesn't start anymore. > Immediately after initialising X-Windows the system freeze, the screen > is blinking and I have to power off. I suppose I have to reinstall the > complete xWindow subsystem (including Gnome and KDE), all the current > binaries and configuration files being overwriten by new ones. How can I > do that in the most efficient way? Before you do all that, it may well be easier to figure out what's actually wrong. Boot the system into a run level that doesn't start X, like either single-user mode, or run level 3. Then, have a look at the logs. First log file to check would be /var/log/XFree86.0.log. If you don't see any errors there, you can try ~/.xsession-errors. - -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+CmowHEnASN++rQIRApXDAJ43NJuqmrg8Xpm/SeXYqWOaaf9/mACfdwzj 8OGKpW3LdjhtgipOFLttcgo= =kWib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
