On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Wade Hampton <wadehamptoniv@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am having a lot of problems with a system after > upgrading it from F10 to F11. I need help to get this > formerly-stable system back. Basically X is messed > up and I can't do yum updates. This is my second > post on this issue. Any help would be most appreciated. > > Background: > > On Saturday, I updated my son's Fedora 10 x86_64 system > to Fedora 11 using preupgrade. All seemed to go well until it > tried to start X on the first boot. Upon starting X, I saw a > white dash in the upper left and X never properly started. > > I rebooted into single user mode, set run level to 3 and booted. > Now if I start X using startx, I lose my keyboard and mouse. The > task bar shows a lot of applications starting. As I have no keyboard > nor mouse, all I can do is hit the power button and shutdown. > I have not tried ssh'ing to the box. > > Note that after pressing the power button, several errors > were displayed including Nautilus having issues with Hal. > > I tried using yum to update the box hoping this might fix > something, especially with the nvidia driver. However, YUM > is broken. It is failing with an error about file > /var/cache/yum/updates/metalink.xml missing. > > System is a Gateway AMD 9500 quad core > Keyboard is PS/2. Mouse is USB. > Display is Nvidia 8600 GT PCI card. > > Any help would be most appreciated as he really > wants his computer fixed. > > Thanks, > -- > Wade Hampton Did you try "yum clean all"? I have not had much success using preupgrade. Best bet is to download either the net-install CD or the DVD and upgrade from either one. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
