Re: Unable to get into X

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First, I now have a new keyboard, giving me control over how my desktop boots.

On 12/08/2011 05:46 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
>  * boot into runlevel 3
>  * yum install kdm
>  * edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop so that it contains:
>
>  DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE"
>
>  // If the file /ets/sysconfig/desktop doesn't exist, create it //
>  * startx
>  * report if that works.
>

Trying startx still gets me (Ugh!) Gnome 3. There's supposed to be a command, startxfce that gets me what I want, but I don't have it and yum can't find it. If I do a normal boot, it just hangs. If I turn off the fancy boot screen, I see it fail several times to create /var/run/kdm/kdm.pid. Checking in runlevel 3, the directory doesn't exist. Creating it and rebooting doesn't work, because when I do, it's gone.

>  Additionally, once you are in runlevel 3, it might be a good idea to do a
>  "yum update", just to cover all bases.
>
>  Report back on what happens. ;-)

Trying yum update doesn't work, because it still thinks I'm in F 14, even though /etc/fedora-release is correct. Using --releasever=16 gets me a huge number of complaints about duplicates and package-cleanup --problems lists a number of things, without AFAICT suggesting what to do about them. Haven't tried --dups as yet, but will ASAP.
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