{"id":1155,"date":"2009-03-02T23:19:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T23:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2009-03-02T23:21:43","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T23:21:43","slug":"fedora-10-my-gui-broke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/fedora-10-my-gui-broke\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 10 &#8211; my GUI broke!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies to the petrolheads out there for whom this will be gobbledegook, but I&#8217;ll try to make this comprehensible as I hope it will help others travelling the &#8216;net. My <a href=\"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/2009\/02\/09\/home-server\/\" target=\"_blank\">home server<\/a> appeared to break itself while <a href=\"http:\/\/mukerji.co.uk\/2009\/03\/01\/dartmoor\/\" target=\"_blank\">I was away this weekend<\/a>. That may seem like an outrageous claim, but really &#8211; it was fine, I switched it off, I went away, I switched it on again, and it was broken.<\/p>\n<p>Being a scientific sort, I&#8217;d better define broken. It booted, but the graphical user interface (GUI) wouldn&#8217;t start. It turns out that last week I applied a yum update (a bit like Windows update) which updated the X server (the graphical interface part of the server). This wasn&#8217;t properly tested for a hardware configuration similar to mine, and it broke everything. :(<\/p>\n<p>A bit of internet research soon showed that other people had suffered the same problem, and today a kind soul has posted i386 fix instructions. I&#8217;ve adapted these for x86_64 users (like me):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.fedoraforum.org\/showthread.php?t=215255#13\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/forums.fedoraforum.org\/showthread.php?t=215255#13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honk honk!\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"honk!\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mukerji.co.uk\/smilies\/nerd.gif?resize=19%2C19\" alt=\"\" width=\"19\" height=\"19\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apologies to the petrolheads out there for whom this will be gobbledegook, but I&#8217;ll try to make this comprehensible as I hope it will help others travelling the &#8216;net. My home server appeared to break itself while I was away this weekend. That may seem like an outrageous claim, but really &#8211; it was fine,&nbsp;[&hellip;] &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/fedora-10-my-gui-broke\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1155"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155\/revisions\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mukerji.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}