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I perfomed an update from Ximian Red Carpet on my RH 8 machine which had been significanly updated already, including running on the latest kernel. I tried to update the critical patches from Red Carpet, but this failed due to dependencies in kdebase-3.1-15 conflicting with lisa-3.0.5a-1
cups-1.1.17-13.3.0.3 conficting with man-pages-fr-0.9-9.
Once this had failed, I noticed that I could no longer open a new app under GNOME. I restarted the machine, and X starts, but the hourglass no longer spins, the animation keeps repeating, and the login greeter never appears.
I can still toggle over to getty-1, 2, etc and use command line. When I do ps -aux, I see the normal list of daemons, but nfsd is listed several times, and does not reflect any tty, just a '?'. Same '?' for XFree86, GDMGreeter, etc. Is this normal?
My problem is I don't know if this is X related, Metacity related, or GNOME related, and don't know how to begin to track this.
Upon further review, I THINK that the nfsd stuff may be normal. I ran the strace on the greeter, since it is not coming up fully, and got the messages below:
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