Update to F-14 does not show desktop manager

[Mike Chambers]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 12:16 +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 15:52 -0500, Mike Chambers wrote:
> > 
> > Ran the commands above, rebooted, and again during boot the kernel msgs
> > go by, then I get the below services to start and then goes to a boot
> > prompt..
> > 
> > [root at scrappy log]# more boot.log 
> > 		Welcome to Fedora 
> > Starting udev:                                             [  OK  ]
> > Setting hostname scrappy.miketc.net:                       [  OK  ]
> > Setting up Logical Volume Management:   No volume groups found
> >                                                            [  OK  ]
> > Checking filesystems
> > /dev/sdg2: clean, 127268/30081024 files, 3048179/120320000 blocks
> > /dev/sdg1: clean, 37/65536 files, 17657/262144 blocks
> >                                                            [  OK  ]
> > Remounting root filesystem in read-write mode:             [  OK  ]
> > Mounting local filesystems:                                [  OK  ]
> > Enabling local filesystem quotas:                          [  OK  ]
> > Enabling /etc/fstab swaps:                                 [  OK  ]
> > 
> > 
> > from here at the boot prompt, I hit init 5 and then after decently long
> > pause, it finally takes me to a gdm login screen as it should.
> 
> What do you mean by you 'hit init 5'? You shouldn't be able to run any
> commands at that point as you're not actually logged in. If you just
> mean you wait a while and then gdm comes up, you're probably hitting the
> known bug with acpid:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=629740 . I have a temporary
> package which dodges that bug at
> http://adamwill.fedorapeople.org/systemd_test_day_20100907/ (grab the
> acpid package for your arch) - it may not be the exact fix the official
> packager will use, but it's safe, and the next official package will
> cleanly update mine.

"type" init 5.  Well it was taking me to a bash prompt, but more like
maint mode it seemed.  And still did until I learned of a fix which
works now.

-- 
Mike Chambers
Madisonville, KY

"Best lil town on Earth!"