No GUI after update

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biggles
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No GUI after update

Post by biggles » 2011/09/27 09:23:45

I have just done an update of Centos 6 with the new newly released CR repo. After reboot when I expected to see the KDE login screen I got a blank black screen.

I reset, logged in as single user and tried "setup" but the only options I get are authentication, firewall, keyboard, network and system, nothing for X. I tried system-config-display & /sbin/system-config-display and got command not found.

Startx from the command line gives the same black screen. I had no X related issues before updating.

Any ideas?

biggles
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Re: No GUI after update

Post by biggles » 2011/09/27 11:57:07

-- SOLVED --

After considerable time in single user mode trying various things including yum downgrades I decided to try reinstalling the ATI drivers and it is now working again.

Past kernel updates have caused problems that required a driver reinstall but I didn't immediately think of this because they have only ever been minor issues with the resolution. It has never crippled the system before.

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Re: No GUI after update

Post by TrevorH » 2011/09/27 14:04:03

Might want to look at the ELrepo repository [url=http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-fglrx]drivers[/url]...

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