SL6 to F16??

[Joe Zeff]

On 10/31/2011 01:06 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> 	But something is still wrong. It gets part way through booting,
> then gives me an error box saying it failed to load session "gdm-shell"
> and a Log Out button. Clicking the button just takes you back to the same
> error box.

It sounds as though you don't have a display manager installed to handle 
logging in.  Try going to an alternate tty with Ctrl-F2, logging in and 
running startx.  If that works, try installing gdm, logging out and 
rebooting.