Boot failure (X-related, maybe?)
Hi all,
I'm not sure whether I will spend more time getting to the bottom of this than I would just starting with a clean installation of FC1, but I thought I should ask around and perhaps learn something in the process...
While running up2date I received a "fatal error" and the system stopped responding to keystrokes; or so I thought it did. I tried to restart X with ctrl-alt-backspace; this sent it into a perpetual loop: command line boot prompt, nvidia splash screen, command line boot prompt, etc.
On reboot, I receive this message at runlevel 3:
error while loading shared libraries: /usr/bin/rhgb: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory.
Runlevel 5 then begins but X never starts. At the command prompt I get an error: Id "x" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes.
Hitting Enter brings up a login prompt and I am able to log in but I have no network access (thus I cannot rerun up2date or any other updater for that matter.) 'startx' (did I get that right?) is not found.
I've been 'playing' with my system, installing an awful lot of packages just to feel things out so I get the impression that it's kind of a mess; reinstalling FC might be a good idea and will surely fix the problem, but then I'll be back at sqaure 1.
Any and all suggestions are much appreciated!
Rob
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