I then tried "rpm -Fvh *.rpm" to perform the upgrade, and I received a message telling me that one of the components in koffice conflicted with one of the components I was trying to installed. I never use koffice so I didn't care about the conflict. I tried "rpm --replacefiles -Fvh *.rpm". This allowed all the packages to install.
Now when I try to start up X Windows and KDE I'm left with nothing but a bluish screen and a black arrow cursor that responds to the mouse.
What steps can I take to diagnose and fix this problem?
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