X won't start in fedora 16

[Jatin K]

On Saturday 11 February 2012 09:51 PM, Peter Lesterhuis wrote:
> Hi,
> When I boot all seems to go well at first. But after the log-in screen 
> a message pops up: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong" etc. I am advised 
> to log out and back in again, but the problem occurs every time. The 
> weird thing is that when I hit the windows-key the ususal 
> X-screensaver appears. But when I try to launch an application I get 
> an black screen with the error message again.
> When I boot in rescue mode and try to start X it fails.
>
> I vaguely remember having run into this problem before, years ago, but 
> I don't know how it was solved
>
> Does anyone have a clue?
>
>
> Peter
>
sometime ago it happed to me also ... on FC 14 ,  I just removed the 
file xorg.conf .... and restarted the system in single user mode and run 
Xorg --configure

it worked fine

Warm Regards

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