Hi everybody:

I have posted this question on the newbie forum, but, as kind as the experts were to try and help, nothing has worked, so I thought I would see if anyone else has had the same problem.

I updated my FC4 system with the new kernel 2.6.14 from 2.6.11 and also KDE 3.5 at the same time. All went well after the first reboot. However, for some reason, after logging out I could not log back in to either KDE or GNOME. The log-in photo I had on the standard screen was gone but my login name is still there. The other user and root can log in just fine. When searching around in text-only mode, I find that I am still on the system and can access my files. But, when I type startx, I get the following:

Keymap 0: permission denied
Keymap 1: permission denied
Keymap 2: permission denied
Keymap 3: permission denied

KDSKBENT - operation not permitted

Xlib: connection refused by server
Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1

giving up


If I was using windows, I would suspect a virus, but this is Linux (no viruses, right?) I have somehow been locked out of anything graphical.

I am obviously new to Linux and do not have a clue what many of these errors mean.

Can anyone help?

Known bug, please see;

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=172425

From the development site download the kbd-1.12-12.1 rpm package for your system, i386, x86_64 or whatever.

Thank you. Do you know of a fix for this problem? I read the bug reports, but did not understand as I am not a programmer. Do you know of a procedure to repair this bug?

As I have already said, visit the Fedora development site and download the kbd-1.2.1-12.1 rpm package for your system.

This will tell you exactly which one you need;
rpm -qa --queryformat '%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}.rpm\n' kbd

The development site is here; http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pu...e/development/

Most likely you need the i386 version. After downloading the correct rpm package for your system as root from the console or xterm session type;

rpm -Uvh kbd*.rpm