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Sir/Madam,
I am a newbie (and not a programmer) running
Linux 9 on a new Dell Pentium computer. It has worked fine for several
weeks. Yesterday I went to the RHN site and downloaded approx. 34 errata updates
and 14 package updates. I am not a paying customer so the package updates
downloads were designated 'pending' (waiting for available time to download, I
guess). I don't know if they were downloaded by the time I shut down the pc at
the end of the day.
This morning the desktop program would not start
and I had to reboot several times just to get to the shell. I have attached the
xfree86 log file as instructed in the original error message, which I hope will
be of help to solve my problem.
Also, when I reboot now, the last lines to
display are the following:
Red Hat Linux release 9
(Shrike)
Kernel 2.4.20-20.9 on an i686
400SC login: /etc/X11/prefdm: line 1: GNOME:
command not found
I did have control of the shell at this point
and was able log on. I used smbclient to copy the XFree86 log file to
another Windows pc on the network.
If I cannot go forward in solving this
problem from here, is there a way to restore the system to where it was
before I downloaded from RHN?
Thank you for any help or suggestions you may
have.
Best regards,
Richard Bohne
HCE, Inc., No. Chelmsford, MA
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