X won't start in fedora 16

[James Wilkinson]

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.

Jatin K wrote:
> 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

Peter: did the error message look like
http://estrip.org/content/users/tinypliny/1111/IMG_20111117_083221.jpg

If so, it’s a Gnome error message, not X, and the chances are that X
itself is fine.

Try creating a brand new user and logging in under that ID.

Are you fully up-to-date?

Hope this helps,

James.

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