David Vanfleet writes:
Hi, I'm trying to get Fedora core 6 installed on my system and I'm having some problems. I got through the initial installation, got to the part where it tells me to remove the media and reboot the system to continue. When the system reboots it locks up at the time that X windows starts (or shortly after). I see the "X" curser for only a moment then it goes away and I get a blank screen and nothing else. I then booted up the system in "rescue" mode and manually started X Windows without any problems (running startx). I'm upgrading this system from Fedora Core 4, which has been running without problems for some time. Any ideas what could be happening here? Any help here would be appreciated.
Could be many things. The first thing to try is to boot into run level 4, log in as root, and run "system-config-display --reconfig". This will give you a fresh X configuration. You can boot into run level 4 by pressing 'E' at the grub prompt, instead of pressing <Enter> or waiting for grub's default timeout to expire, pressing 'E' again to edit the kernel boot arguments, and appending <space>4 to the end, then <Enter>, then 'B' to boot the kernel.
If that doesn't fix it, boot into run level 4, and look in /var/log/Xorg.0.log for clues (don't use the rescue disk again, starting X in rescue mode will wipe out Xorg.0.log).
If you're using non-free binary blobs from Nvidia or ATI, remove them, and reinstall all X rpms, to fix any breakage.
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