On Wed, 31 Jul 2002, Russell Davie wrote: > > >Ok, just so I can get a better idea of what's going on, how did you do the > >upgrade? CDs? URPMI? downloading RPMS and manually installing? > > I downloaded RPMS after doing <rpm -Uvh ***.rpm> and noting missing > dependencies, and kept going till no more dependencies
ok. Recommend you try URPMI, but I've ranted enough about it in the last week. > >were there any errors during the upgrade? > > yeah, not every thing went in properly, messages on console said files were > being written in right places but with different names, like > /etc/filename.rpmnew alrighty, take a look at these files. It means that RPM was unable to configure certain programs and thus put the proposed config file in blah.rpmnew. > >Did you have X set up to start automatically previously? > > yes > > >take a look in > > > > /var/log/XFree86.* > > no such file hrmm. That's bad news, it sounds like your x server is failing way early in the startup process, like finding libraries or something... > > >Alternatively, if it is starting X on boot, log in as super-user on a > >console, switch to runlevel 3 with "init 3" and run "startx", see what > >happens. > > ahh, error message: > error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-2.so.3 cannot open > shared object library: no such file or directory > a search on rpmfile.net found it to be in egcs-c++-1.1.2-58mdk.i586.rpm, > presently downloading ok, that sounds likely, although (and I could be completely wrong on this) that sounds like it might be an old version of X? I'm pretty sure mdk 8.2 would have X linked against libc 6.2 > > I can't log in at the console, though can get in if I log in as a user, > then login as root via <su> > > >ok, that's probably a security setting. There's a number of places you can > >do that sort of thing. What's in your /etc/securetty file? > > err, couldn't find this..? maybe not looking hard enough. (this is being > done in another OS) Right, that would explain it. Try making a file called "/etc/securetty" and putting this into it: tty1 tty2 tty3 tty4 tty5 tty6 vc/1 vc/2 vc/3 vc/4 vc/5 vc/6 (taken from a clean mandrake 8.2 install) > I can't give this much attention till next week, other stuff to do... keep us posted. James. (incidently - random OT Mandrake anecdote - I just did an install of mdk 8.2 and it actually resized the windows partition that was on this box. I was well impressed :)) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
