I used my laptop to search out a thread on removing nVidia cruft on the
fedoraforum, because I remembered that it had what looked to be a good
suggestion. It was. I did the following as root:
yum remove *\nvidia*\
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
reboot
all of which can be done without network access. There were still a few
things to tidy up because disks weren't in the same order as they were
before, and one of them isn't (yet) connected, but that wasn't very
hard. Thunderbird still didn't want to start but before I started
nuking things I did a system update because there were probably updates
for F16 between the time it went into surgery and EOL, and one of them
was another Tbird update that fixed things. There are still a few
things needing my attention, but nothing urgent except for using
preupgrade one more time to get to F17. Later, of course, I'll try
fedup on my laptop and see how well it does with F18, which will tell me
if I want to do the same on the desktop or not. Thanx for the help you
gave me, and I hope that the above fix gets remembered for future reference.
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