I promised to let the list know how I solved the problem (in case it's ever of 
some use to someone). After a lot of trial and error, I discovered that  
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules was an empty directory. I checked on my other 
installation and found that it should contain hundreds of files. I have no 
idea what happened to the files, but I copied them all from the other 
installation and X now works. I only wish I had an idea why these files and 
/usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 disappeared. I wonder if anything else is missing :-(. 
I wrote earlier that I have backups of everything, but that's not 100% true. 
I always assumed that it wasn't necessary to back-up nearly 4 Mega of /usr 
since I could always re-install any package from RPMs. But now, I'm not so 
sure. I did try erasing and re-installing XFree86 and even went to the 
extreme of updating from MDK91 to MDK92 and still ended up with missing 
files. Very strange.



-- 
Shlomo Solomon
http://come.to/shlomo.solomon
Sent by KMail (KDE 3.1) on LINUX Mandrake 9.1



=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reply via email to