FC5 doesn't start up right.

Tony Nelson tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Wed Jul 19 14:29:22 UTC 2006


At 8:33 AM -0500 7/19/06, Aaron Konstam wrote:
>On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 01:53 -0400, Poohba wrote:
>> I am not able to start right into gnome or kde.  I think it is set to
>> start in kde and it is failing.  I have to boot into linux using the
>> argument linux 3, log in as root and then 'gdm' to get into X.  Why is
>> this?  When I boot regular it stops after starting Hal Daemon.  I had
>> fc3 and upgraded to fc5 and this has been the problem since the
>> upgrade.  There seems to be a lot of problems with pm is trying to
>> upgrade python, I am not sure if that is the problem but it is a
>> problem.
>To me the problem to me is trying to upgrade from FC3 to FC5.

To me, the problem is that his FC3 wasn't working properly, so he upgraded
(how? yum or installer?) to FC5 hoping that would fix it.  He had a mess,
and tried to fix it by making it more complicated.  Now it is time to
backup data, wipe, and re-install, as Chong Yu Meng said.
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