On 13 August 2012 20:45, William Henry <whenry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all, > > Just wondering if anyone else experienced this problem in the last week or > so with Fedora 17. > > My machine notified my of updates last Wednesday. I went ahead with the > updates. Without warning my screen sort-of flashed and then the machine > rebooted. However it would not boot but instead hung (right after the common That's not a great sign, I don't think doing an update is supposed to reboot the machine automatically. It's likely your system crashed (either hardware or software) and if that happened during an update you might be in an awkward place. Alternatively something got installed that was sufficiently broken that it caused a crash (though I don't think that would affect X until you restarted X). Or it just happens that one of the updates doesn't work for you and the restart was incidental. > bad font type message). My machine will boot in level 3 mode and I can run > startx in that mode - though it doesn't manage to run the gnome 3 interface. > > I've tried several pretty useless changes - useless in that though they came > up in google searches they really don't seem to have anything to do with the > issue. I've looked at /var/log/messages with some other experts and we can't > see anything that stands out. The issue seems to be an Xorg problem and I'm > not sure how I can reconfigure. I've tried running: "Xorg :1 configure" but > that didn't do anything. I don't see any system-config-monitor or anything > like that anymore. So I'm not sure what to do to get gnome 3 back working. > > Anyone any ideas/similar issues? As I said I can boot in level 3 and run > startx but I still hang on a normal boot. > I'd look at the yum log (/var/log/yum.log) for the update and try reinstalling all implicated packages (assuming you have a network connection available). If there are X related packages upgraded try rolling them back if possible (I'm assuming that if there's a kernel update in the window you've already tried booting the previous one). Might also be worth finding the /var/log/boot.log that corresponds to one of the failed boots. -- imalone http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
