On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 18:00:11 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 05:04:26PM +0000, Beartooth wrote: >> >> My old Thinkpad T30 (on which I ran fedup from F18 to F19) is >> beginning to seem like more effort than it's worth, ever if eventual >> success of the effort were a sure thing. Is there a FedDown lurking out >> there somewhere? > > You can always try `yum --releasever=18 distro-sync'. But it goes > without saying, there are no guarantees whatsover. > > That said, could you elaborate your actual problem? Maybe then someone > can help. I'll try, and also refer you to a thread I began Sunday, called "F19 : getting to GUI (or anywhere)," in case I omit anything. I had F18 running fine, till I did a fedup (by the website) to F19. It seemed to finish, and claimed success. I rebooted. The display that came up was way, way oversize. I did Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or maybe F2; I disremember); it helped, and the display has been more like normal size since. The text displays in a very dim pink-orange-brown color, reminiscent of a flashlight whose batteries are almost dead, with the green OK of the boot messages barely discernible. (I have it plugged into a UPS.) It rarely finishes booting, or else abandons the display. At first it stopped when it hit sendmail; now it stops after saying it has installed an ABRT core dump hook (whatever that is). In any case, it fails to show a login screen. It responds to ssh over my LAN; so I can log in that way. Here's another attempt to work over ssh -Y (which didn't affect the display on the T30's own monitor). [root@T30 ~]# xinit X.Org X Server 1.14.3 Release Date: 2013-09-12 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: 3.10.9-200.fc19.x86_64 Current Operating System: Linux T30.localdomain 3.11.1-200.fc19.i686.PAE #1 SMP Sat Sep 14 15:20:42 UTC 2013 i686 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-0- rescue-1d7352e603b24d77a5b516b0204a434a root=/dev/mapper/vg_t30-lv_root ro rd.md=0 rd.dm=0 KEYTABLE=us SYSFONT=True rd.lvm.lv=vg_t30/lv_swap rd.luks=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 rd.lvm.lv=vg_t30/lv_root rhgb quiet Build Date: 16 September 2013 12:43:28AM Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.14.3-1.fc19 Current version of pixman: 0.30.0 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Oct 16 16:35:33 2013 (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" Initializing built-in extension Generic Event Extension Initializing built-in extension SHAPE Initializing built-in extension MIT-SHM Initializing built-in extension XInputExtension Initializing built-in extension XTEST Initializing built-in extension BIG-REQUESTS Initializing built-in extension SYNC Initializing built-in extension XKEYBOARD Initializing built-in extension XC-MISC Initializing built-in extension XINERAMA Initializing built-in extension XFIXES Initializing built-in extension RENDER Initializing built-in extension RANDR Initializing built-in extension COMPOSITE Initializing built-in extension DAMAGE Initializing built-in extension MIT-SCREEN-SAVER Initializing built-in extension DOUBLE-BUFFER Initializing built-in extension RECORD Initializing built-in extension DPMS Initializing built-in extension X-Resource Initializing built-in extension XVideo Initializing built-in extension XVideo-MotionCompensation Initializing built-in extension SELinux Initializing built-in extension XFree86-VidModeExtension Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DGA Initializing built-in extension XFree86-DRI Initializing built-in extension DRI2 Loading extension GLX (II) [KMS] Kernel modesetting enabled. The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86AudioMicMute Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Internal error: Could not resolve keysym XF86AudioMicMute Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server xinit: Unable to run program "xterm": No such file or directory Specify a program on the command line or make sure that /usr/bin is in your path. xinit: connection to X server lost waiting for X server to shut down (EE) Server terminated successfully (0). Closing log file [root@T30 ~]# -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
