On Tuesday 23 June 2009 14:49:01 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:02:05 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 11:30:20 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 08:33:33 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 10:12:45 Anne Wilson wrote: > > > > > I allowed the automatic update on the netbook last night. All seemed > > > > > to go well up to and including the message that it was finishing off > > > > > the install. When next I looked I had a black screen with a white > > > > > square cursor. I left this overnight, in case something was still > > > > > running in the background, but it wasn't. > > > > > > > > > > A reboot brought the same display. I was able to get a level3 login, > > > > > both as user and root. Can someone advise me where to look now? > > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > Anne > > > > > > > > What happens in lvl3 when you run startx? > > > > > > After I close the box previously reported I see lines that include > > > > > > Is GTK+ supported: no > > > Is Qt supported: no #which probably explains something :-) > > > .... > > > kstartupconfig4: error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.7: > > > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory > > > FreeType: couldn't open face /usr/share/fonts/cjkuni/ukai.ttc: 1 > > > Warning Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion > > > Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset > > > > > > Waiting for X server to shut down Dropping master > > > > > > So I guess this explains what's happening. Now I presume I have to > > > install additional packages to correct these. Can you tell me which > > > packages? Thanks > > > > > > Anne > > > > How did you upgrade you're system? If you used yum, then what happens when > > you run yum-complete-transaction? > > > > Eli > > Updating the metadata was one display that seemed to go on a long time. I now > find that it is still trying to update from the F10 repos. How/where can I > get the release packages to change this? > > Anne > Depending on your installation http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm or http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/11/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/fedora-release-11-1.noarch.rpm One other thing.. You should make sure that you're *.rep files under /etc/yum.repos.d have not been configured so that they are only able to get things from the Fedora 10 repos that is where on the line baseurl and / or mirrorlist where it should read "$releasever" it says "10" Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
