Re: Upgrading to 19 by fedup: bad and good news

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On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:52:16PM +0200, antonio wrote:
> antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on
> 29/06/2013 15:39:
> >antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on
> >29/06/2013 15:17:
> >>Today I issues a fedup-cli network 19 command (
> >>
> >>At the end of procedure that ended right when rebooting I get
> >>
> >>Bad news:
> >>
> >>I get a black window if I login as any user with a fedora logo on the
> >>bottom of screen but I can use tty and then issue a startx
> >>
> >>Good news
> >>after issuing startx my old video card (Geforce FX5200) works fine with
> >>Gnome 3.
> >>
> >>Why do I have only F18 kernel??
> >>
> >>Tnx
> >>
> >
> >more info:
> >
> >I have two users, when I issue startx with user A (that is coming from
> >F18) I get the message oh no something went wrong, while a fresh user B
> >can issue startx flawlessy.
> >
> >Also root can startx with no problem
> >
> when the screensaver starts I get authorization failed, i.e. I have
> to hard reset the machine!!!

Antonio:

Right up front I'll say I have no idea about the various problems you
report (apparently) from having used fedup.

However, this last one, you almost certainly DO NOT need to reset the
machine. If I read you right, it's stuck in the screensaver, you can't
authenticate to get back to your login.

If that's right, you can do one of at least  a couple different things:
1. try CTRL-ALT-BKSP, which should kill your X session and return it to
   a login. Note that this only happens if that response to CTRL-ALT-BKSP
   hasn't been disabled by default.
2. switch to another VT, log in, kill the X session that's stuck.
3. probably a dozen other choices that don't come to mind right now.

In my F19 system, CTRL-ALT-BKSP seems to be disabled by default. you
can enable it in the gnome tweak tool. click "typing" and in the resulting
list select "Key sequence to kill the X server", set it to
"Control + Alt + Backspace. then the next time you have this kind of
fail, just do the 3-finger-salute and voila.

Fred

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