Compaq Presario 2197CA laptop, AMD Athlon XP 2800+, 512 meg ram. Install went perfectly (after I turned off legacy USB support in BIOS), laptop worked fine for a few days. I tried using the RHN to update all my installed software. One or 2 packages had corruption but after hours of tinkering I decided to try "continue anyway" and see if it would just skip trying to install those packages. Instead, up2date/rpm just failed and stopped when it reached those packages. Then my desktop was acting strangely so I logged out. I could not log back in. I would see a text prompt (not the graphical prompt I'm used to) for a second but it would disappear, only to reappear for a brief second a bit later, and so on, forever. I tried rebooting but when I get to where the graphical login screen should be, I get an error: id "x" tried to respawn too quickly waiting 5 minutes (or something like that). I tried logging in to the console as root and doing rpm -Uvh *.rpm on the /var/spool/up2date dir but it said the files were already installed. Reboots continued to barf in exactly the same way. I just (re)installed from my Fedora Core 1 CDs and did an "update current installation" and now I'm back to the "text login then immediate blank screen" repeating situation. I'm assuming I'll need a full system reinstall now (F*&#!!!!!!!). Any ideas before I wipe and reinstall? There was nothing of value on the system yet but still... grrr... just like Windows. :-( -- Trevor Smith | trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
