<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">thanks a lot. <br>CTRL-ALT-F3 did bring the login prompt. i have been using nvidia proprietary drivers so i guess this was the problem.<div>how should i proceed from here? yum install ???</div><div>thanks again,</div><div>monty<br><div><br>--- On <b>Fri, 5/27/11, Greg Woods <i><woods@ucar.edu></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Greg Woods <woods@ucar.edu><br>Subject: Re: fc14->fc15 via preupgrade hangs during first boot<br>To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org<br>Date: Friday, May 27, 2011, 9:12 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 13:24 -0700, Monty Clift wrote:<br>> the screen is stuck for more than an hour and the last line written<br>> was:<br>> <br>> <br>> Started LSB: Start up the OpenSSH
server daemon<br>> and there is a blinking cursor<br><br>There are plenty of possibilities, but this could mean that the video<br>driver did not start. Try hitting CTRL-ALT-F3. If that produces a text<br>console with a login prompt, then this is your problem.<br><br>In particular, if you had been using the nvidia proprietary drivers, you<br>will need to install it again for your new kernel. <br><br>--Greg<br><br><br>-- <br>users mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:users@lists.fedoraproject.org" href="/mc/compose?to=users@lists.fedoraproject.org">users@lists.fedoraproject.org</a><br>To unsubscribe or change subscription options:<br><a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br>Guidelines: <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines"
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