X11 libraries

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I was installing quicktime4linux today and after a reboot I cannot get x to start

I am getting an error message telling me that shared libraries in usr/X11R6/bin/xauth are missing.

Is there an easy way of reinstalling X from the command line?

I have a large book on Xfree86 but need the computer running again faster than I can read…had a trawl through the net on my other machine but no luck so far.

I am using openSuse 10.1 Enterprise edition SP1 …I think.

I am considering doing an upgrade to a newer version or maybe Ubuntu (which I have on another machine)

What is my best be to avoid losing any data from the user accounts? and to get Gnome desktop up and running again?

Any help would be so greatly appreciated.:’(

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In YaST there’s an option to refresh packages unconditionally.
It works in text mode.

Did this under 10.3, so your lib deps may be slightly different

ldd /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb7f3d000)
libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb7f2e000)
libXmuu.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXmuu.so.1 (0xb7f2a000)
libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb7e0f000)
libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7cdc000)
libxcb-xlib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libxcb-xlib.so.0 (0xb7cd9000)
libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb7cbf000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7cbb000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f5f000)
rob@fir:~> for i in libXau.so.6 libXext.so.6 libXmuu.so.1 libXmuu.so.1 libX11.so.6
> do echo $i; rpm -q --whatprovides $i
> done
libXau.so.6
xorg-x11-libXau-7.2-54
libXext.so.6
xorg-x11-libXext-7.2-65
libXmuu.so.1
xorg-x11-libXmu-7.2-65
libXmuu.so.1
xorg-x11-libXmu-7.2-65
libX11.so.6
xorg-x11-libX11-7.2-75

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That looks like a good way to go but I am getting a message saying that qt frontend and ncurses frontend are not working for yast2.

Would I need the RPM for yast2-ncurses? or can I downgrade to yast?

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What does quicktime4linux consist of? Was it built for SUSE or some other distro, like RH? If it replaced any of the standard SUSE X11 libraries, then you may have buggered up your system.

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it was for suse 10 I think…

Might I be best just installing a new verion of suse?

Will this cause me to loose the user accounts and files etc.?

Cheers for the help

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I don’t know if going from SUSE to OpenSUSE will preserve the user files in /home, but I think you will lose the account info. Better backup your user data anyway.

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Sorry they are both open suse but will do a backup now with a live cd or something

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Well there is no such thing as OpenSUSE Enterprise SP1 as you wrote.

OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server/Desktop (SLES/D) are different distributions. OpenSUSE is a community distro; SLES/D is supported by subscription purchased from Novell.

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Ah sorry my bad, I gotcha now. i have just rescued the user files now so I think I will go for a fresh install.

Thanks for all the help