Fedora 17 boot problem -

[Mark C. Allman]

On Tue, 2012-08-07 at 12:37 -0400, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA
wrote:
> I've just installed F-17/64/XFCE on what was an F-16/64 computer.
> 
>     Initially everything worked as expected, it updated without a hitch.
>     I was making my usual configuration changes, rebooted and now it
>     stops just before the login screen. blank with just "Can not open
>     font file True"
> 
>     At this point I could reinstall but would lose an hours work and the
>     bandwidth required for the update.
> 
>     In rescue or whatever it's called I can see that the last change I
>     made has no typos, [10-evdev.conf to fix the copy paste problem].
> 
>     Any idea what I can do next?
> 
>     Bob
> 
>     -- 
>     http://www.qrz.com/db/W2BOD
> 
>     box9
> 

Sounds like X won't start.  Two ideas:
1.  Check /var/log/Xorg.0.log
2.  If you have an /etc/X11/xorg.conf then rename it and reboot.

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