I wrote before that also xorg-x11 seems to be goner after recent updates. A closer examination reveals that this is not precisely true. A check in logs shows that because of a confusion of mounts created by initscripts X cannot find any fonts so it does not start. The only problem is that instead of returning with a failure X holds to a keyboard and sits there doing nothing. Courtesy if initscripts sshd also did not start, even if had a network up, so I could not reach buggered out machine over a network as well. Booting to level 1, cleaning up all that mess done by a startup, and then doing 'telinit 5' does work. Until you shovel out that junk things like 'mount' or 'df' have no chance to work correctly. I guess that I will submit a bugzilla report tommorow unless somebody will be faster (which I do not mind at all :-). Michal