Tried it and felt I was getting close. But then I hit other issues trying to get things back. Downloaded the DVD ISO to reinstall from fedora project and that failed. Got pushed into dracut (?). Not sure why that image doesn't work for me. So then I went live cd and that worked. I installed from there. And currently resorting the backup of my home dir. So I basically gave up and reinstalled. Wasted several days. Very disappointed. Thanks for you help guys. The effort was much appreciated. William On Aug 14, 2012, at 8:26 AM, William Henry <whenry@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
