----- Original Message ----- > 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. That's funny - when I used the word "crash" with some others they didn't like me using that word. I'm glad someone else sees this as a crash. (cause it was.). But you bring up an interesting point below. > > > 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. I looked in the yum.log file and there is NOT entry for Aug 8th the day it happened. BTW I did try and use the older F17 entries in grub but it didn't help. I've done an update since. There was new stuff today. Perhaps a reboot will fix things. I will look at some of the packages and try and look in some of the corresponding boot.logs. But I don't see any other boot.log file besides the one from the last boot whihc of course is always ok because me only successful boots are with level 3 and are therefore successful. William > > -- > imalone > http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk > _______________________________________________ > laptop mailing list > laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
