RedHat 9 system. I have seen a lot of posting on this problem, but no answer to what causes the deleting of system files . How come the Linux community isn't up in arms over this? After spending hours and hours going through the usual "new hardware", "get the latest", "hardware problem", "the moon is full" type replies, it seems that nobody has a real answer to this.
My system isn't new, has been working for over 6 months and all I did was log out as a user and tried to login as root. Video goes black "well at least it wasn't the blue screen of death", now a cycle of attempts to determine the video card, monitor and finally a look at the log files and behold " Failed to load module bitmap". Digging deeper and a ton of X11 files that we there for months are now gone. I saw one post that said something about RedHat turning on video DMA in RH9. So now we get a jump into memory somewhere that decides to erase a bunch of X11 files. Sounds strange to me, but then who would have guesses that anyone would actually release something that would do this. Anyone have a real fix for this?

How come the Linux community isn't up in arms over this?
because everyone majior already knows redhat sucks.

Bill,

Could you post a link to the discussion you're referencing. I could only find one other post where you mention this issue (and no one responded to your question.)

Speck

Can't imagine why, but here's the first 20 from Yahoo
1. RedHat: filesystem? "Failed to load module ..."
... My system (RH9 on PIII) worked yesterday, but this morning it failed to start X. The error is: Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0). ...
linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/RedHat/2003-08/2210.html - 11k -

2. [LIH]Unable to load module "bitmap"
... Hi, I cannot start the X server.The error message was Failed to load module "bitmap"(module does not exist). /etc/X11/XF86config I am using RedHat Linux 9.0. ...
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-in.../msg26946.html

3. SunBlade 100 X issue
... startx': (II) LoadModule: "bitmap" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap (II) UnloadModule: "bitmap" (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not ...
lists.debian.org/debian-sparc/2002/debian-sparc-200210/msg00328.html

4. Fw: X og manglende moduler
... WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap (II) UnloadModule: "bitmap" (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule: "pcidata ...
http://www.sslug.dk/emailarkiv/tekni.../msg00477.html

5. LinuxQuestions.org - x problem - where Linux newbies come for ...
... The errors list as: (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module does not exist, 0) Fatal server ...
www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/102661

6. Yahoo! Groups : redhatlinux Messages : 7401-7500 of 7957
... Osama Ahmed, osamaahmed, Thu 7/31/2003, 7405, (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap", Miguelito Quijano, migs_quijano, Thu 7/31/2003, 7406, ...
groups.yahoo.com/group/redhatlinux/messages/7401?viscount=100

7. [PLUG] X server won't load in RH 9.0
... II) Load Module: 'bitmap" > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap > (II) UnloadModule: "bitmap" > (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not ...
plug.org.in/pipermail/plug-mail/2003-August/009272.html

8. Re: [livid-gatos] ati.2
... usr/XF-4.0/lib/modules" > > (- using VT number 7 > > > > (WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap > > (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not ...
gatos.sourceforge.net/livid-gatos/2001-January/msg00188.html

9. Unable to load required base modules (bitmap and pcidata)
... bitmap" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap (II) UnloadModule: "bitmap" (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) (II) LoadModule ...
www.spinics.net/lists/xf-newbie/msg02959.html - 9k

10. Geocrawler.com - dri-users - [Dri-users] i810 Problems
... set to "/usr/X11R6-DRI/lib/modules" (--) using VT number 7 (WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist ...
http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3...1/6/0/6023235/

11. [ILUG-BOM] Red Hat Linux 9 booting problem.
... XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.4 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule ... open module dbe (II) UnloadModule: "dbe" (EE) Failed to load module "dbe" (module ...
mm.gnu.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20030616/010808.html

12. Red Hat -- Linux, Embedded Linux and Open Source Solutions
... linux >(II) LoadModule: "bitmap" >(WW) Warning, couldn't open module bitmap >(II) UnloadModule: "bitmap" >(EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not ...
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/.../msg00014.html

13. XFree86 Version 4.0 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, ...
... usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a (II) Module bitmap: vendor="The ... to load /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/pex5.so (EE) Failed to load module "pex5" (loader ...
www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~pb/T7140CT-sample

14. [Pluto-help] Mandrake 9.0
... Da riga di comando mi d=C3=A0 questi errori: > (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not exist, 0) > (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata" (module ...
lists.pluto.linux.it/pipermail/pluto-help/2003-February/008541.html

15. Forum: Linux/GNU — opšta diskusija Link: http://www. ...
... II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule: "pcidata" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module pcidata (II) UnloadModule: "pcidata" (EE) Failed to load module "pcidata ...
www.elitesecurity.org/tema/6168.txt

16. XFree problems in YDL 2.3
... var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Aug 12 09:34:38 2002 > (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config-4" > (EE) Failed to load module "bitmap" (module does not ...
lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/pipermail/yellowdog-general/2002-August/003622.html

17. Debian Alpha List: Re: New XFree86 not working
... FreeType (II) LoadModule: "speedo" (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libspeedo.a No symbols found in this module Failed to load spencode.o (EE ...
http://www.alphalinux.org/archives/d...2000/0024.html -

18. Forum
... Load "xtrap" Load "speedo" Load "type1" Load "bitmap" Load "freetype" Load ... X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Wacom.so (EE) Failed to load module "xf86Wacom" (invalid ...
http://www.lepied.com/archive_wacom....=archive_wacom

19. This is a pre-release version of XFree86, and is not supported in ...
... Video Driver, version 0.4 (II) LoadModule: "dri" (WW) Warning, couldn't open module dri (II) UnloadModule: "dri" (EE) Failed to load module "dri" (module ...
www.cthulhu.demon.nl/XFree86.0.log

20. port-i386: Re: XFree86 4.0.2 snapshot available (was Re: ...
... XFree86 Font Renderer, version 0.1 (II) Loading font Bitmap (II) LoadModule ... modules/xie.so (II) UnloadModule: "xie" (EE) Failed to load module "xie" (loader ...
mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2001/01/04/0019.html