Can't Login to Fedora

[Timothy J. Finucane]

It's only using 4.3GB out of 33GB.Not even close to full. The X-org log
file says "Could not open defaultfont 'fixed'".

Tim

On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 16:29, Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
> Timothy J. Finucane wrote:
> > ok, now I'm in rpm hell. I have downloaded the rpms required to
> > reinstall X. I start by attempting to install 
> > xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.i386.rpm which says it requires libGL.so.1. So I
> > then attempt to install xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.2-1.i386.rpm which
> > contains libGL.so.1. It won't install because it requires libX11.so.6,
> > libXet.so.6, and libXxf86vm.so.1. Those three files are in the original
> > xorg-x11-libs-6.8.2-1.i386.rpm. Each rpm requires the other.How amI
> > supposed to install that?
> > 
> > Any thoughts would be appreciated.
> > 
> > Tim
> > 
> > On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 12:56, John Nichel wrote:
> > 
> >>Timothy J. Finucane wrote:
> >>
> >>>Ok, I have successfully gotten to a login prompt now. If you try to
> >>>startx from there, it has the same problem as when booting in at
> >>>runlevel5. When I did updates with up2date I did include the x11.org
> >>>updates. Is there anyway to replace those updates with the original
> >>>installs via the command line?
> >>>
> >>>Tim
> >>>
> >>
> >>If you had it enabled before performing the original up2date, you can 
> >>use the rollback feature.  Haven't ever tried it myself to say whether 
> >>it works or not, but this is the type of situation it is made for.
> 
> You are going way too far here. This sounds EXACTLY like what happens 
> whan you run out of hard drive space. When you are at your prompt, do 
> "df -lh" and see how much space you have left. If you're out, start 
> deleting and then go into init 5. Even if it's not, reinstalling X is 
> not the answer. -Jesse
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