On Sunday 20 December 2009 20:01:35 Anne Wilson wrote: > Well, it finally finished, just as I'd begun to think it was stuck. > Unfortunately it booted to a black screen. I tried several times to boot > with an edited grub entry, without success. This last time it suddenly > started up a blue screen with the Fedora infinity sign - and I thought I > was winning - but it's still sitting there, a black screen with a flashing > cursor at the top left. If I don't crack this soon I'll end up wiping it > and installing from disk. > > Later - well, at least I got as far as a text login. Now I have to try to > get the display working. First things first, /var/log/Xorg.0.log should tell you what is wrong with X. Second, what does cat /etc/fedora-release says? > system-config-display is not installed. Yum > tells me that it can't retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for > repository:fedora. I have already disabled adobe repo and ATrpms repo, and > I guess that it's going to fail on all the others too, by the sound of > it. Any ideas? Assuming you are not running rawhide I suggest to clean the metadata for yum: yum clean metadata then if the problem with fedora repo still persists you can try to comment the mirrorlist line (add a # at begin) and uncomment the above line of baseurl. Another possible option is to move the mirrorlist from https to http. FWIW the last two options are fallback moves and I don't recommend them for general purpose, in one or other occasion for update purposes I had to play with them to get the system to a working state from where all worked. > Anne -- Jos? Ab?lio
