X won't start on F14 - I've run out of ideas! [Solved]

[Claude Jones]

On Friday, October 15, 2010, Claude Jones wrote:
> On 10/14/2010 1:16 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote:
> > OTOH, you might try to boot a Fedora Live CD, just to be sure
> > that hardware is still ok, run a memtest, etc. In general I
> > hate to suggest a reinstall of the whole OS, but since there
> > is no obvious way to understand the problem you have, maybe
> > a reinstall would be a quick way out of problems. Just be
> > sure to backup all your data.
> 
> With no one coming up with further ideas, I decided to try an
> upgrade using the F14TC1 release. It went fine, but the
> problem persisted upon first reboot. Don't know if that's a
> clue or no - I keep thinking, some .conf file or equivalent
> somewhere...is the prob

Ended up doing a reinstall to F14x64_TC1 - all is now well; I went 
into custom partitioning and used all the same partitions as 
before, but left the old home unformatted - so, the / and /boot 
partitions got wiped but my old home with all my data and mail and 
numerous other custom configurations were preserved. The machine 
came up after the install, asked me to create a new user 
name/password; when I put in the same as the old, it reported that 
it had found a user folder with that name and did I want to take 
possession of that folder - answering yes produces a pause as the 
permissions and rights are reset, and then the machine came right 
up. X is running perfectly now - presumably, I'm up on the nouveau 
driver. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
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