Thanks. Great idea. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:10 AM, "Steven Grunza" <sgrunza@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: laptop-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:laptop- >> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of William Henry >> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 6:02 PM >> To: Ian Malone >> Cc: laptop >> Subject: Re: Last weeks F17 updates and problems with booting >> >> One interesting difference between level 3 and default boot. >> >> With default boot and quiet etc off I see a iscsi failure that I >> don't see in level 3: >> >> [Failed] Failed to start LSB: Starts and Stops login and scanning >> of iscsi devices. Asks to run systemctl status iscsi.service for >> details. >> >> But of course when I run this in level 3 I don't see the problem >> because I never see that failure message on. Lot in level 3. >> >> I wonder if I just need to reinstall Fedora 17 at this stage. It's >> very disappointing that there isn't some sort of diagnostic tool >> that I could run to solve and fix this issue. F17 has been the most >> troublesome for me. I started at F7 and don't remember anything >> like the issues I've had this time around. (my preupgrade failed >> and I had to install from scratch and now this from-scratch install >> had a problem with an update.) /me looks forward to F18 (I think). >> (or maybe it's my Lenovo x220) >> >> William >> > If it was my laptop then before a complete re-install I would boot into level 3 (non-graphical) and try to un-install all the X11 packages. I would then try to re-install the packages I normally use which would most likely bring in X11 because of dependencies. It might not get you back to running but if you're going to re-install it's worth a shot. Just a thought... > _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop