No longer any xwindows on RedHat 7.3

[Ian Stephen]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:53, Carruth, Matt wrote:
> I've been running Redhat 7.3 <snip>
> Last week, I rebooted and the xwindows system did not come up.  

Something like this happened once on my RH8 system.

/var/lib/xkb was gone and "default font 'fixed'" was gone.

Re-installing the XFree86 rpm restored /var/lib/xkb and re-installing
the XFree86-base-fonts rpm restored the font.

Look for clues in logs, not sure which.  Maybe /var/log/XFree86.0.log,
/var/log/messages and/or /var/log/boot.log

Redhat system should have Lynx in /usr/bin which will allow you to
retrieve rpms without X if you need to.  It's a bit wierd to use, but
gets the job done.

-- 
Ian Stephen <ianstepn at shaw.ca>