F14 login fails on backup copy; gdm error?

[Joe Zeff]

On 12/10/2011 01:26 PM, Linda McLeod wrote:
> When the OS does go "thht", I rush to pull-off my bookmarks&  pw's, and
> "DBAN autonuke" the hd, reinstall F-14 plus the 500 updates, plus my
> custom peripheral package options..

I don't know what you're doing to make Fedora fail often enough to worry 
about this, but my experience is very, very different from yours.  The 
last time I did a clean install on my desktop, it was F9 and, except for 
F10 and F15 which I skipped because they seemed flaky, I've used 
preupgrade to go from one to another without any trouble until F16. 
Right up until that upgrade blew up on me my computer was rock solid, 
running 24/7.  And, if my suspicions are right, it's either a bad USB 
port or keyboard that's giving me grief, not the OS, but that's beside 
the point.  For the vast majority of users, Fedora, like any mainstream 
Linux distro doesn't keep going tits up on you and needing reinstallation.

Instead of spending so much time on disaster recovery, you might 
consider spending a little time finding out just what it is you're doing 
(or not doing?) that's making your system act so hinky.