I had the same thing happen for me w/ a few 7.2 installs. It got to the point
that i would install it but not test it, just so the install could finish. Then
it (X) would usually start up tho, i think (i can't remember). I invoked it
with startx. That was around the time that i was shutting down absolutely every
service and opening them up as needed - so i shut down xfs without knowing what
it did. X didn't start up (naturally) and then as i stared at the error
messages the gears started to turn and i started up xfs again and it worked. I
don't think i've ever had X not work after a successful install unless i
fiddled with the settings or changed video cards (god help me if i do something
like that, i'm not good enough with the hardware/software interfacing to fix
something like that).
Don't know if that helps, but there is my $0.02 :-)
j
--- Mike Rambo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At the start, I'd appreciate it if anyone responding would copy my email
> address. I somehow got dropped from the list about a month ago and for
> some reason have been unable to re-subscribe (or else my employer is
> filtering email from mandrake somehow).
>
> I have installed Mdk8 (from .iso) on two different machines (Dell P166,
> 64MB, 6GB IDE and Gateway Celeron 500, I810 chipset, 64MB, 8.6GB IDE)
> and have ended up with the same problem on both. The install goes fine
> including the setup and testing of X but upon rebooting both machines
> try to start X and end up dropping back to the CLI. Manual attempts to
> start X fail as well. I have looked through the list archives and
> haven't seen any other references to this problem (makes me wonder what
> I've done).
>
> install.log on the Gateway shows these three things -
>
> *perl setting locale failed
> *unpacking cpio archive - bad magic
> *glibc-2.2.2 install failed exit status 127
>
> I haven't been able to check the Dell install for similar entries yet.
> /var/log/messages and /var/log/XFree86.0.log show nothing helpful
> either.
>
> Anyone have any insight on this problem?
>
>
> --
> Mike Rambo
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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