Re: Ooh! now I did it, I broke it!


Subject: Re: Ooh! now I did it, I broke it!
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Sun Jan 30 2000 - 10:03:39 MST


Pass the argument "3" as thje first item in BootX - this will start ydl
in runlevel 3 (multi-user text mode) instead of 5 (xdm). Log in as root
and work on XFree settings.

BondTrails@aol.com wrote:
>
> Hey YellowDoggers,
>
> I think I screwed up my Champion Server real good. Yes, I am a newbie so it
> shouldn't come as a big surprise. I wanted to take advantage of khendrick's
> java implementation so I downloaded and installed kernel 2.2.14p6 and glibc
> 2.1.3
>
> Everything was going smooth and dandy until I added the latest XFree86 (XFree
> 3.3.5 from Tom Rini's site on LinuxPPC) as per the recommendation for the
> java implementation. So now when I shutdown and restarted my Yellow Dog (and
> had all the services start up) I was not greeted with the familiar Yellow Lab
> or the Log-In screen. Instead, I got a compacted Red Hat screen (actually, it
> was almost like a wall paper covering only the top half of the screen) for
> about 3 secs before switching back to an endless loop of X diagnostic errors
> (the usual screen that you get when X fails) and the Red Hat screen.
>
> Now I can't log in because it keeps going into this loop. Anyone know what
> could be wrong? if there is no remedy, anyone know how I can get the original
> XFree back? Is my only alternative logging on in some text mode that can only
> be called from the bootx screen?
>
> I want my Yellow Dog BACK! (because reformatting would really suck)
>
> Bondster!

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Ed & Laura Jaeger

"They are able because they think they are able."

- Vergil (70-19 B.C.)



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