>>I am still stuck on the reboot forcing me to go to console and "startxfce4". >>The boot process looks really barren, with a single blue-white bar >>with "fedora 16" in blue at far right, >>at the bottom of a black screen. Joe Zeff responded: >I had the same issue after upgrading. It turned out that there was a problem with a database> >GDM uses. Using yum to reinstall it worked. [byers@f16a9 ~]$ yum list installed |grep -i gdm lists nothing [byers@f16a9 ~]$ yum list available |grep -i gdm gdm.i686 1:3.2.1.1-10.fc16 updates gdm-devel.i686 1:3.2.1.1-10.fc16 updates gdm-libs.i686 1:3.2.1.1-10.fc16 updates gdmap.i686 0.8.1-8.fc15 fedora lcgdm.i686 1.8.1.2-1.fc16 fedora lcgdm-dav.i686 0.8.0-1.fc16 updates lcgdm-dav-devel.i686 0.8.0-1.fc16 updates lcgdm-dav-libs.i686 0.8.0-1.fc16 updates lcgdm-dav-server.i686 0.8.0-1.fc16 updates lcgdm-devel.i686 1.8.3.1-2.fc16 updates lcgdm-libs.i686 1.8.3.1-2.fc16 updates nagios-lcgdm.i686 0.9.1-1.fc16 updates nagios-plugins-lcgdm.i686 0.9.1-1.fc16 updates nagios-plugins-lcgdm-common.i686 0.9.1-1.fc16 updates pulseaudio-gdm-hooks.i686 0.9.23-1.fc16 fedora root-gdml.i686 5.30.06-3.fc16 updates [byers@f16a9 ~]$ so I do # yum install gdm ? or # yum groupinstall gdm ? Jack -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org