[PLUG] Exciting Fedora 3 Update
Bill Spears
bspears at easystreet.com
Sun Nov 21 06:35:53 UTC 2004
Today I updated from Fedora 2 to Fedora 3; it seemed to work until I
booted. It got to Grub, got to the temporary login prompt, and promptly
went to black. Totally black, totally hung. I repeated this
fascinating experience several times just to be sure it actually
happened.
Fortunately, the update comes with a rescue disk, maybe they know
something. Looking at /var/log/messages, I saw that it looked like gdm
was at fault. I changed inittab and booted into runlevel 3 just fine.
Phew!
X had been working perfectly before so I don't know what could have
happened. When I ran Xorg -configure it told it couldn't detect my
mouse and that I should fix that section. I tried
Xorg -config /etc/X11/xorg.conf and it didn't hang, so I tried startx
and it worked, so I guess there was nothing wrong with X, although I
don't know why Xorg -configure didn't work(system-config-display) also
hung.
Does anyone what changed in FC3 to mess up gdm?
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Bill Spears <bspears at easystreet.com>
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