2009/9/12 Dave Cross <davorg@xxxxxxxxx>: > This morning I was using my desktop machine without a problem. I ran a > "yum update" to pick up the most recent updates. This afternoon I > rebooted the machine and now X won't start. > > Well X starts to some extent. I get the login screen, but when I type > in my username and password I get a blank screen with a spinning > cursor for a couple of seconds before being dumped back to the login > screen. > > I've booted the machine into single user mode and edited /etc/inittab > so that the machine boots to level 3. I know get a text-based login > which I can use to access the system. I tried to run 'startx' to go > into X. The screen goes blank as if X is starting, but nothing else > happens. I've attached a Xorg.0.log from one of those aborted attempts > to start X. > > My suspicion is that this is caused by something in the yum update > that I ran this morning - but I can't see anything that would > obviously affect X. I've just found another thread discussing this issue. Seems to be a problem with xorg-x11-server-Xorg. Downgrading that has fixed the problem. Sorry for posting without checking the archives first. Dave... -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
