Re: Last weeks F17 updates and problems with booting

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Thanks. Great idea. 

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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...
> 
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