<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:55 PM, JD <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jd1008@gmail.com" target="_blank">jd1008@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 class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Aaron Konstam <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akonstam@sbcglobal.net" target="_blank">akonstam@sbcglobal.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 11:51 -0600, JD wrote:<br>
> After upgrading from fc14 to fc16 using DVD iso,<br>
> I booted up after the upgrade, and tried to log in<br>
> on the gnome welcome screen.<br>
> Well, I got the blue screen but my desktop never<br>
> came up and a banner popped up<br>
> Oooops - something went wrong ... logout and try again.<br>
><br>
> I was never able to go beyond that no matter how many<br>
> times I retried.<br>
><br>
> Then I performed the updates.<br>
> After the updates, I rebooted.<br>
><br>
> Now I get no gnome welcome screen.<br>
> The screen stays blank, and the<br>
> disk activity light on the computer remains on,<br>
> until I press the Return key. After that the<br>
> disk activity light goes out, and screen remains blank.<br>
><br>
> PS: my graphics chip is the legacy Radeon Mobility 9600/M10<br>
><br>
> I tried to switch to any one of the vty's<br>
> (Control-Alt F2 or F3 or F4) to no avail. Nothing happens.<br>
><br>
> Any ideas what to look at and fix in single user mode?<br>
><br>
> Thanx,<br>
><br>
> JD<br>
<br>
My prejudice would not to upgrade but to install F16 as a new<br>
installation. There so many differences between F14 and F16 that I would<br>
not trust an automatic upgrade to work.<br>
But on the other hand some people do this and it works.<br></blockquote><div> <br>I will try one more solution suggested on the web, and failing that,<br>I think I will do a fresh install, and then install all the missing rpms<br>
that I had on fc14 (assuming they have been ported to fc16.)<br><br></div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br>OK, I tried the solution suggested on the web, and did not work.<br>So, I did a clean install (not upgrade) and that went perfectly well<br>as far as installation.<br>BUT, logging in from the gdm greeting menu just hangs after<br>
entering the password and clicking log in.<br>It just hangs there and nothing happens.<br><br>Logging in as root on vty2, I see that the user jd has one process<br>which is executing some program with the argument login<br>
Sorry, I do not recall what the program was and cannot look it up<br>as the fedora installation machine is not accessible to me right now.<br><br></div>