No longer any xwindows on RedHat 7.3

[Net Llama!]

On 08/26/03 16:51, Ian Stephen wrote:

> 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.

Or with wget or ncftp

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