Why GNU/Linux Rocks

[sgreger1]

Ah, given that information remove all your kmod packages and the proprietary ati drivers you said you installed. Reboot, and see how things are working. Yeah, get rid of catalyst. Since ati hasn't put out linux drivers for your card (ATI generally sucks at this), you'll have to use the default drivers you were on before you installed that. Getting rid of catalyst should remove all those kmods as dependencies, and I think with a reboot, you'll be back on the normal ones.

Edit: Of course it said no such file, you ran a different command from what I told you.

cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.Xorg.0.txt && fpaste ~/Xorg.0.txt

You put .txt on the end of the first one, when you needed to leave it be.

YYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS SSSSSSSSSS!

Removing the KMOD packages fixed it! Everything works normal again!

Wow this has been a great exercise though, I am remembering the commands by memory now and have gained a better understanding of how things work under the hood. At least as far as identifying packages and then telling yum to uninstall them and their dependencies.

Thank you so much for all of your help Shiki! I owe you some snus man you have really gone out of your way to help me here and I am so happy that I am back up and running.

[shikitohno]

Yeah, that would be the limited networking abilities I was talking about. I think it may be panicking because you've got it using the wrong drivers. You'll need to remove the catalyst drivers and kmod stuff, so that it reverts back to using the default, open source ati drivers. You also won't be able to use anything like Compiz.

[sgreger1]

In the screenshot I accidentally chose .txt instead of .log. When I corrected it it said uploading 67kib, then it says error name or service not known.

[shikitohno]

Edit: I have an ATI AMD Radeo MD 6800 series graphics card which, according to this, is not supported by Linux. Google didn't help resolve which drivers were necessary since they claim AMD didn't release any linux drivers yet for the 6800 series.

Ah, given that information remove all your kmod packages and the proprietary ati drivers you said you installed. Reboot, and see how things are working. Yeah, get rid of catalyst. Since ati hasn't put out linux drivers for your card (ATI generally sucks at this), you'll have to use the default drivers you were on before you installed that. Getting rid of catalyst should remove all those kmods as dependencies, and I think with a reboot, you'll be back on the normal ones.

Edit: Of course it said no such file, you ran a different command from what I told you.

cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/.Xorg.0.txt && fpaste ~/Xorg.0.txt

You put .txt on the end of the first one, when you needed to leave it be.

[sgreger1]

Here is the fpaste a grep Kmod

[sgreger1]

Okay I tried the fpaste again with your new parameters and it says no such file in directory.

[sgreger1]

Probably because it's a .log file. Try

cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/Xorg.0.txt && fpaste ~/Xorg.0.txt

and see if that works. And no, you don't retain full network connections in recovery mode. You only retain just enough to do system maintenance and fix your problem, which by default includes using yum. Other programs will be quite restricted.

Okay so from my limited knowledge it seems like this is retrieving /var/log/Xorg.0.log and converting it into a new txt file and then uploading it via fpaste, correct? I will try this right now.


Edit: I have an ATI AMD Radeo MD 6800 series graphics card which, according to this, is not supported by Linux. Google didn't help resolve which drivers were necessary since they claim AMD didn't release any linux drivers yet for the 6800 series.

[shikitohno]

And what were those five packages? You should be able to figure out which version of kmod you need by googling "kmod ATI (model)" and just use that one. Let's see what you've got on here though.

[sgreger1]

Sorry, on last one I mean to say Kmod was installed and had 5 packages.

[sgreger1]

Okay so I tried

 fpaste --sysinfo --confirm

and it gathered all my info and asked if I wanted to upload. I said yes. It then said "name or service not known".

So maybe fpaste doesn't work in recovery mode after all.

Kmod packages were as follows:

Should I try ^d for default mode?

[shikitohno]

Probably because it's a .log file. Try

cp /var/log/Xorg.0.log ~/Xorg.0.txt && fpaste ~/Xorg.0.txt

and see if that works. And no, you don't retain full network connections in recovery mode. You only retain just enough to do system maintenance and fix your problem, which by default includes using yum. Other programs will be quite restricted.

[sgreger1]

Okay so good news and bad news. I do retain network connections in recovery mode. Tried to install fpaste but it says I already had it installed.

Ran:

fpaste var/log/Xorg.0.log

Returns with: "var/log/xorg.0.log is not readable" and then gives me a few examples of some commands I can use in fpaste.

[shikitohno]

Yeah, mutter isn't going to work, since single-user mode doesn't start X. Also replace quote with code to make it show up in a code box, sgreger. No problem, but don't be too surprised if you get "Unable to resolve host" or something and it craps out on you.

I did just think of something. What does

rpm -qa | grep kmod

spit out at you? You need to install the right version of kmod for your graphics card for the ATI drivers to work at all.

[sgreger1]

Mutter --replace

returns "unable to open x display".


I will try fpaste and see if I can get it to generate a log for you. One moment.

[shikitohno]

Well, to start with, what's the exact error message so I can try and find an answer? Also, like I said, #fedora will probably be able to help out here. Also, I'm not sure if fpaste will work in single user mode, but try it to see if it does. Run

fpaste /var/log/Xorg.0.log

and if it works, write down the link and post it for me. If it says command not found,

yum -y install fpaste

to get it. There's a fair chance that it won't work at all though, as single user mode sharply restricts your network access in order to limit security risks, since you're operating as root.

Edit: Sweet, I can stop dicking around with quotes.

Actually, if it won't overflow the character limit just post the log here in in code tags,
[ code] [ /code] without spaces, like any other BBcode tags.

Also, after this thread, if we get sgreger up and running, I'm petitioning to change my title from 'Graduate of Snusology' to 'Resident Linux Boffin.'