Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
n 03/11/2012 11:19 AM, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
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I had that problem on this box after an "upgrade" to F16 went sour. Try
booting into runlevel 3, or whatever it's called now, log into a CLI as
root and try this:
yum reinstall gdm
and reboot. In my case, a database had gone away and the reinstall
restored it.
Joe,
I finally stumbled on a technique that allowed me to boot bu just
deleting the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Only problem I had as a result is
that I can not get the gnome3 interface, when I log in it switches to
the fallback of gnome2.
Your idea of using reinstall seemed intriguing. I tried to reinstall
gnome-shell* but that did not bring any success either.
I had such difficulty adjusting to gnome3 when it came out, I have been
a little surprised by my attitude of missing the gnome3 interface now.
If you have any other suggestions I would appreciate some help.
If you miss gnome-shell you definitely _need_ help! ;-)
Seriously, most of the time the fallback means that the video drivers are not
sexy enough for the garbage special effects GNOME3 adds to impress game players.
Did you by any chance have a 3rd party (aka working) video driver installed,
such as from another repo like rpmfusion? If so, there may have been an updated
kernel in your "failed update" and your kmod-whatever is unable to update.
I highly suggest running updates under some simple window manager, so that if
your video hardware breaks due to use of a vendor driver or just a bug in a
kernel driver you will still be functional.
And hint about gnome-shell, everything is better with a touch of cinnamon, YMMV.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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