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I updated to Centos 6.8. Every thing is working, except Xorg does not startup. When I look at top, it seems that Xorg keeps trying but not succeeding to start. Any idea what the problem might be? Thanks Shoshana Rosenthal srosenthal at cfa.harvard.edu

...plied the updates. The alternative is to load the system from scratch, so what is there to loose. The result seems to be working so I will document what I did. # First I rebooted and specified to use the original kernel # Then mount the place where I unloaded the original DVD ISOs mount -t nfs phxbkup2:/iso/centos6.7x64 /media/CentOS # Tried to sync from this location, but it did not work, yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c6-media --releasever=6.7 distribution-synchronization # There were a number of conflicts that prevented the yum to run. # The troublesome packages did not look like they...

...ound was to disable the main repo's in /etc/yum.repos.d and enable 6.7 in the vault repo. Did a distribution synchronization. Here are the notes from what worked: (may be line wrapping issues in what follows) Went back to the x64 version and figured out how to roll back to 6.7: mount -t nfs phxbkup2:/iso/centos6.7x64 /media/CentOS # This one failed with dependency issues yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c6-media --releasever=6.7 distribution-synchronization # Erased the problem packages yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c6-media --releasever=6.7 erase python-libipa_hbac-1.13.3-22.el6_8.4.x...

...#39;s in /etc/yum.repos.d and > enable 6.7 in the vault repo. Did a distribution synchronization. Here > are the notes from what worked: (may be line wrapping issues in what > follows) > > Went back to the x64 version and figured out > how to roll back to 6.7: > mount -t nfs phxbkup2:/iso/centos6.7x64 /media/CentOS > # This one failed with dependency issues > yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c6-media --releasever=6.7 > distribution-synchronization > # Erased the problem packages > yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=c6-media --releasever=6.7 erase > python-li...