RE: helixcode update gone bad for RH7

[Joachim Backes <backes rhrk uni-kl de>]

On 25-Oct-2000 lee wrote: 
>  
>  was doing the helixgnome install for RH7.0 last night and i got HD full
>  error......my /tmp area must have become huge?......or
>  something......anyway upon rebooting I got:
>  
>  black blinking (where the monitor makes audible two beep noises ) screen
>  and no desktop to load of course..........in /etc/X11/xdm-error? it says
>  down page or two:
>  
>  fatal server error:
>  
>  could not open default font 'fixed'
>  
>  can someone give me semi-novice walk through ofhow to repair system to get
>  my desktop back...

Hi, lee,

 I had similar problems too, and I re-installed my complete RH 7.0
system to get gnome running (with the origin RH 7.0 gnome).

I guess, there is a function missing in of helix code installer which backups
the old GNOME installation (for such cases as you described).

Regards


Joachim Backes

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