On Friday 11 July 2008 14:48, Rex Dieter wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > This morning my F9 box gets to the login screen, then I get a white box > > on a > > black background. The white box disappears and I'm left with a black > > screen. It seems that things carry on in the background, as, after a > > while, I get the chimes that signal that the system is ready to go. > > > > I've checked that it isn't the kernel that's the problem - it happens on > > both > > kernels. The session menu at login doesn't show any other dm, so I > > thought I > > must have forgotten to install an extra one. I went into failsafe mode > > and > > first tried for updates, to be told that there are none. I then tried to > > install gnome-desktop, figuring that it would pick up the necessaries > > from there. It says that gnome-desktop is already installed. > > > > At this point I'm at a loss to know what's next. Advice? > > One brute force method is to reset your prefs > mv ~/.kde ~/.kde.BAK > and then (potentially) start restoring bits of it until you're back where > you want to be or you retrigger the bug, whichever comes first. > Thanks, Rex. That's exactly what I have done (not done the restores yet, though). It begs the question of how this happened, though. It does appear to be related to the updates that I did yesterday, and apparently I'm not the only one to have experienced it. Bug #454055 reporter seems to think that it is related to xorg-x11-drv-i810-2.3.2-2.fc9.i386. I've added my bit, in the hope that it brings light to the devs/packagers :-) Anne -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
