The advice about yum downgrade or yum upgrade only works if you already can recall
how to get reconnected to your router when the X window tools for that are not
available. So can somebody post a set of instructions that really work from the
state with no X windows and no network connection, please? (I can still read email
by booting into Windows.....)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Areeda" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Friday, 13 July, 2012 1:24:38 AM
Subject: Re: X11 server won't start after yum upgrade

have the same problem with a virtual machine under VirtualBox. 

I'm running: 
Linux 2.6.32-220.23.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Jun 18 09:58:09 CDT 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 

Log files Xorg.0.log says: 



[ 38.144] (II) LoadModule: "vboxvideo" 
[ 38.145] (II) Loading /usr/lib64/xorg/modules/drivers/vboxvideo_drv.so 
[ 38.145] (II) Module vboxvideo: vendor="Oracle Corporation" 
[ 38.145] compiled for 1.5.99.901, module version = 1.0.1 
[ 38.145] Module class: X.Org Video Driver 
[ 38.145] ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 9.0 
[ 38.145] (EE) module ABI major version (9) doesn't match the server's version (10) 
[ 38.145] (II) UnloadModule: "vboxvideo" 
[ 38.145] (II) Unloading vboxvideo 
[ 38.145] (EE) Failed to load module "vboxvideo" (module requirement mismatch, 0) 
[ 38.145] (EE) No drivers available. 
[ 38.145] 
Fatal server error: 
[ 38.145] no screens found 
[ 38.145] 
Please consult the Scientific Linux support 
at https://www.scientificlinux.org/maillists 

Everything else is working fine but I can't use the console. 

Joe