Michel van Deventer wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 10:33 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > >> I had been running a system on Centos 5.1 at INIT 3. I did the upgrade >> to Centos 5.2 with the aid of the powernowk8 patch. >> >> Previously I would VNC into the unit when I needed to do admin stuff >> with a GUI. Well I noticed that I was NOT getting GNOME via VNC since >> the upgrade (worked before just fine with 5.1). So I tried an INIT 5 >> from the command line (always worked before), but the system seemed to >> hang. Video was off. >> >> I rebooted, went to INITTAB and changed init to 5 and rebooted. >> Probably a tragic mistake. >> >> Now on boot, right after UDEV gets an OK, the screen goes blank and the >> drive stops turning. >> >> ...... > For the rest, we first need > logfiles, /var/log/messages /var/log/boot.log and > maybe /var/log/Xorg.0.log > I just tried: system-config-display from the command line. With 5.1 this would start X so that I could set the proper display, then exit X when I exited the display config. I had to use this, as with 5.1 I had to do the install with the drive in another box. So I KNOW this worked in 5.1 Now I just hang. And NOTHING is written to any log file. Any advice? Oh, and here is another 'hint'. Here is the vnc log: Xvnc Free Edition 4.1.2 Copyright (C) 2002-2005 RealVNC Ltd. See http://www.realvnc.com for information on VNC. Underlying X server release 70101000, The X.Org Foundation Fri Jun 27 14:45:04 2008 vncext: VNC extension running! vncext: Listening for VNC connections on port 5907 vncext: Listening for HTTP connections on port 5807 vncext: created VNC server for screen 0 Could not init font path element /usr/share/X11/fonts/OTF, removing from list! Could not init font path element /usr/share/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list! SESSION_MANAGER=local/decTOP1.htt-consult.com:/tmp/.ICE-unix/4657 Window manager warning: Log level 32: could not find XKB extension. ** (eggcups:4777): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030 ** (eggcups:4777): WARNING **: IPP request failed with status 1030 Initializing nautilus-open-terminal extension Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/redhat-email.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-writer.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-impress.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory Unable to open desktop file /usr/share/applications/openoffice.org-1.9-calc.desktop for panel launcher: No such file or directory Introspect error: Activation of com.redhat.setroubleshoot timed out xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server ":2.0" Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':2.0'; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the window manager. (gnome-panel:4745): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Failed to re-activate daemon: Connection was disconnected before a reply was received could not attach to desktop process The application 'nm-applet' lost its connection to the display :2.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'pam-panel-icon' lost its connection to the display :2.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'gnome-panel' lost its connection to the display :2.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. The application 'nautilus' lost its connection to the display :2.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. (gnome-panel:4745): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_run_dispose: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (gnome-panel:4745): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_run_dispose: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (gnome-panel:4745): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_run_dispose: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed X connection to :2.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). (pam-panel-icon:5102): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: Window manager error: Unable to open X display :2.0 (eggcups:5098): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :2.0 [root at decTOP1 .vnc]#