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Something happend where my RHEL6 computer locked up and I needed to shutdown the computer manually via holding the power button. When I turn the computer back on all I ...
  1. 07-05-2011 #1
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    X broken? Please help.

    Something happend where my RHEL6 computer locked up and I needed to shutdown the computer manually via holding the power button. When I turn the computer back on all I see is the wallpaper and mouse curser...no log in window or anything.

    I can do the alt-shift F1/f2 thing where I can log in via terminal type commands but I cant get the normal display to work. Please anyone know how to fix this?!

    Thank you in advanced.

    Update:
    When going init 5 in the console x loads but still nothing but the wallpaper and mouse. When I go back to console it seems to be stuck at enabling bluetooth devices...but I dont believe I even have a bluetooth device.
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    Have you tried accessing the grub menu and logging in at runlevel 3 (no gui). Do that, and then try running the "startx" command manually to see what the problem may be. Also, you probably need to fix the file system (fsck) by booting up with a Live/Recovery CD/DVD/USB device, and then running fsck on the unmounted file system(s) in order to sort them out. Do that before you try booting into runlevel 3.
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
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    1.) I dont know how to run no gui via grub i only see my linux part and xp part. But i did log in and run init 3. then after a log in i did startx. THe GUI appeared with some crashed associated with the panel. (abrt-gui and libbonobo). Every time I try to add to the empty panel i get two crashes ..... (gnome-panel and libbonobo)
    How do I see whats the acual problem?

    2.) I did fsck from a live cd and it said my disk was clean.
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    Ok. Good start. Try reinstalling GDM and Xorg. Ie:
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    yum reinstall gdm 'xorg-x11-*'
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    im afraid this PC does not have internet can this be done with the install dvd?
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    Quote Originally Posted by SirRoot View Post
    im afraid this PC does not have internet can this be done with the install dvd?
    Difficult, but possible. You need to access the rpm files, and do this instead (I think I have it right - assuming you are running 64-bit):
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    yum reinstall gdm.x86_64.rpm 'xorg-x11*x86_64.rpm'
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    I have a 32bit system. I tried to be smart and convert that line of code but I faild.

    Also when I locate teh gdm rpms on my install cd all the rpms say they cannot find key? This never happened before this issue occured.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SirRoot View Post
    I have a 32bit system. I tried to be smart and convert that line of code but I faild.

    Also when I locate teh gdm rpms on my install cd all the rpms say they cannot find key? This never happened before this issue occured.
    Use the yum option --nogpgcheck. This will skip looking for the key.
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    i did the yum --nogpmcheck reintall gpmxxx.rpm and a reinstall was successful however no change in problem.
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    Still nothing...anything got any other ideas?
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