Can't See Login Screen

[chosokabe]

My login screen has been replaced with a bunch of pastel-colored blocks and I haven't the slightest idea why. Any help would be awesome.

I'm running a dual boot system on a dell Dimension 3000 with windows XP and Fedora Core. I installed it a few days ago and it was running fine (I'm new at this so I used the directions from Stanton Finley's site: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html because these have worked for me before).

Today I installed the ms true type fonts, grip and yumex and rebooted. Then I was about to work on installing java (I had downloaded the .bin file that the above-mentioned directions pointed me to) when I noticed that the directions I was following suggested that I should run yum update before to make sure I had the latest kernel version.

I did this and yum installed some 28 new packages--I remember some of them started with xorg but I don't know exactly what they all were. After that I made up part of a CV using MS office. The next time I restarted the login screen was gone.

Now, instead, everything runs as normal during the boot until it gets to "login localhost:" Then it stalls for a few seconds, and then a mostly black screen with some blue and red blocks flashes up. I looks like a broken atari game. After a little while it flashes again. I can reboot the computer by pressing control-alt-delete a bunch of times.

I assume there's something wrong with the video configuration. I have no video card on this computer and I didn't manually alter any video settings since I have no idea how they work. The monitor works fine in windows. Also, I can boot into fedora using the rescue cd, but once I'm in there I don't know what to do.

Any hints? I would be so glad for some help with this.

[KikeSoto]

I have the same problem. Installed the same package.


PLEASE HELP!!!!!!! I can't login

[smfinley]

I think there's something seriously wrong with the new xorg files. They borked my X Windows sytem in the same way. I've done a fresh install and I don't dare update my xorg files again. Perhaps we'll get some news about this soon.

[chosokabe]

Short of a fresh install, is there any way to get back to the old xorg files?

[niko123456]

yeh i definitely cant reinstall right now. very important data sitting on that desktop.

[smfinley]

You could boot into runlevel 3. (Hit "a" at the boot splash screen, type a space and a "3" at the end of the kernel line", hit enter) and log in as root and see what you can do.

Edit: This is now a known bug with mailing list discussion at:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg02070.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg02082.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg02175.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg02183.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedo.../msg02268.html

I did a complete re-install and then a "yum --exclude xorg* update" as root to keep from getting the bad xorg update.

[niko123456]

well if you can put up with using Windows or whatever to keep accessing the net then it might be best to wait until you can boot into runlevel 3 then do another yum update, hopefully when they revert to the old xorg or fix the bug.

thankfully i managed to salvage my data. ive never done the runlevel 3* thing before but it was dissapointing that things like my USB key mounting automatically and stuff wouldnt work. I guess thats what Gnome used to do.. I must have had a brain freeze too because I had trouble mounting anything.. although 'mount' showed some unexpected results as to what was automatically mounted using fstab.

to boot into runlevel 3:
at grub, hit 'e'. go to the second line and hit 'e' again. at the end of that line type 'single' then enter. then hit 'b'. it will boot up. then type 'init 3' and you're in runlevel 3. hopefully before too long we can forget about this mess and we'll be able to update with 'yum -y update' and have it fix things..

[niko123456]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=168562

maybe others could fill in gaps etc.

[crankshaft]

Happened to me a couple of hours ago after a YUM update, twice ! - I ended up re-installing only to have it happen a second time !

I am using the onboard VGA, so I shut down, added a spare VGA card and rebooted using the spare card. I then went into xorg.conf and changed the driver to vesa, shutdown, removed the card and restarted and it all came back up again - no more horizontal & vertical patterns !

PeterC

[Zigzagcom]

Funny, I didn't need to re-install. The X server offered to reconfigure my settings after a second reboot. I had to re-select my graphics card and set the refresh rate again. It is only that my nvidia driver isn't recognized, at least the nvidia splash screen no longer displays on reboot.

Below is the output from my /var/log/Xorg.setup.log

X Window System Version 6.8.2
Release Date: 9 February 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.2
Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.9-1.906_ELsmp i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux xxxxxxxxx 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 #1 Fri Aug 26 20:29:51 EDT 2005 i686
Build Date: 14 September 2005
Build Host: tweety.build.redhat.com

Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
OS Kernel: Linux version 2.6.12-1.1447_FC4 (bhcompile@decompose.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.0.1 20050727 (Red Hat 4.0.1-5)) #1 Fri Aug 26 20:29:51 EDT 2005 P
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(++) Log file: "/dev/null", Time: Fri Sep 16 17:56:47 2005
(++) Using config file: "/tmp/tmpjyzFw9xorg.config"
(EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to load GLX

*** If unresolved symbols were reported above, they might not
*** be the reason for the server aborting.

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting


Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.X.Org
for help.
Please also check the log file at "/dev/null" for additional information.

Sreenshot1.png shows the Xorg packages that have been updated.

[Lenard]

First boot into runlevel 3

Second create the list of the xorg rpms that you will need; rpm -qa 'xorg*' | sort

Third use wget to download the older xorg rpms from Fedora, for example for FC4;
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...C4.45.i386.rpm

(Note the command is one long line with a space after wget and the rest of the command)

Fourth remove (delete) the xorg packages you do not need.

Fifth install the older rpms using the force switch; rpm -Uvh *.rpm --force

Sixth start runlevel 5; init 5

[lvanek]

I got back up with X by using rescue CD (using chroot /mnt/sysimage) and changing /etc/inittab to boot to runlevel 3. Looking at the Xorg.0.log indicated the NVIDIA GLX failed to load.

Rebooted reinstalled the nvidia drivers (7676 version) using their installer. Did modprobe nvidia then init 5. Viola! Still have screen artifacts here and there but Im functional at least.



Dont ask me why this worked, I have no idea. Ran glxgears & glxinfo which indicate the NVIDIA GLX is loaded.

[chosokabe]

Thanks Lenard--I followed your instructions and I'm back on fedora now. I have an Intel built-in video card, so this is a good solution for people who don't have an nvidia driver to reinstall. It took about 5 minutes and I had no major problems with it. The only thing that I got hung up on is when I tried to use wget (which I haven't used much) to retrieve all the relevant files for fedora core using the address you listed I got an error saying that "http doesn't support wildcards" so I ended up downloading the files one at a time instead, which seems to have worked fine.

Anyway, thanks a lot for your help.

[Senori]

First boot into runlevel 3

Second create the list of the xorg rpms that you will need; rpm -qa 'xorg*' | sort

Third use wget to download the older xorg rpms from Fedora, for example for FC4;
wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...C4.45.i386.rpm

(Note the command is one long line with a space after wget and the rest of the command)

Fourth remove (delete) the xorg packages you do not need.

Fifth install the older rpms using the force switch; rpm -Uvh *.rpm --force

Sixth start runlevel 5; init 5

Some of the packages refuse to install even with --force; some sort of error about how they won't execute then saying that it'll skip the package.

[smfinley]

A bug fix test release of the xorg files has just been posted here. Save all the files from http://people.redhat.com/krh/xorg-x11/fc4/ to ~/temp, do a "cd temp" and a "sudo rpm -Uvh *", and reboot.