<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:12, Fernando Cassia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fcassia@gmail.com">fcassia@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>So, I´m running out of clues as to what to do. I´m curious if any of you running F17 with the testing repos experienced any hiccup wrt X not starting up?.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If not, I´d really appreciate clues wrt how to get my system back to a working state.</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div>OK, I´m progressing but not at the speed I´d wish.<div>I looked at the Xorg log files and the last thing it loaded before the hang were the vbox drivers.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I remember the last thing I had installed before the reboot was the vbox ose plugins.</div><div><br></div><div>So I went to the xorg libs dir and removed vbox*.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess I was wrong to remove the files without removing the references to them, as now the system boots to a point where the monitors put themselves in power-saving mode (blinking power led) and I can´t even do ctrl-alt-f2 to get to a login prompt.</div>
<div><br></div><div>So, I´d really appreciate if someone more knowledgeable about Xorg snafus would give me a generic recipe to get my system back to at least vesa mode.</div><div><br></div><div>I guess booting from grub 2.0 in single user mode would be first right?</div>
<div>FC<br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br>During times of Universal Deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act<br>Durante épocas de Engaño Universal, decir la verdad se convierte en un Acto Revolucionario<br>
- George Orwell<br><br>
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