Benjamin Sher wrote:
>
> Dear friends:
>
> For some unknown reason, the StartX in the Console keeps hanging forever
> instead of taking me directly to KDE, as it usually does. I have tried
> for the past hour doing a soft reboot, then a cold reboot (disconnecting
> the system), Cnt + C, then retyping the command on the new prompt line.
> I made sure that my printer is off when booting, etc. Nothing works. The
> StartX command, after being typed, just hangs forever. I tried the same
> thing as root. Same thing happens as user or as root. The StartX command
> is in /usr/X11R6/bin/StartX. I have had a problem with the Startx
> command on occasion before, but now it just won't work under any
> circumstances.
>
> Would appreciate if someone could troubleshoot this.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Benjamin
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Just guessing, if it is 7.0-2, likely your font server is dead.
The font server makes a couple of symlinks to files in
directories in /tmp (very weak idea--nowadays they use /root/tmp
in hydrogen), and if you executed some process which wiped /tmp,
you may have physically deleted the files the symlinks point to.
The solution is to reinstall X... Very little else should be
perturbed.
and I do mean reinstall
rpm -q XF* to locate the packages
and
rpm -e to remove them
Maybe someone else has an easier way, but I have never sorted
through the tangle of script and code to find one.
Civileme
