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

[James McKenzie]

  On 10/16/10 11:00 PM, Claude Jones wrote:
>
> 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
>
Just post the paragraph you just sent me.  That might be enough for the 
developers to figure out what broke.

James McKenzie