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

[Claude Jones]

On Saturday, October 16, 2010, James McKenzie wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Can you report this on the test mailing list as well to make
> them aware  of this 'fix' and that the problem persisted
> through a reboot when you upgraded from an older FC
> version.  May stop this from happening when FC 14 becomes
> available to the general public.

I'm not really sure how to formulate such a report. I had a 
problem with X starting properly after some updates of a month or 
so ago. I have no recollection which round of updates started the 
problem. I tried many, many, things to resolve this, but to no 
avail. Whatever the problem was (which I never was able to 
discover), a simple upgrade of my F13 system to F14TC1 didn't 
resolve the issue; the upgrade replaced and updated many packages, 
too numerous to count - I posted all this, but only got a few 
replies, so I was apparently on unencountered territory; the final 
fix was to reinstall F14x64TC1, but rather than upgrading, I fresh 
installed; I used the custom drive layout option and deleted 
everything on my / and /boot partitions, reformatting them, while 
leaving /home intact
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA
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