Can't Load Fedora 15

[Bill Davidsen]

Reindl Harald wrote:
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> Am 01.04.2013 20:06, schrieb Joe Zeff:
>> On 04/01/2013 10:51 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> There are reasons for running old versions, but but only a few of us
>>> have a good one.
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> there are NO REASONS for Fedora
> if you need LTS because you have reasons you use the wrong distribution
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>> I stopped caring after not getting a response, and
>>> follow this thread now for amusement, watching sensible people not only
>>> beat a dead horse, but drag the carcass through the streets.
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>> Absolutely.  Yesterday's updates (I presume) somehow b0rk my desktop, running F 17; even rebooting into an older
>> kernel didn't get things back.  (No, this isn't an attempt to hijack the thread; it's just background for what
>> follows.)  The boot process never completes, but when disk activity stops, I can get to an alternate TTY and log
>> in; sometimes, but not always, the network's up.  (I'm a tad suspicious of my NIC, but again, that's a side issue.)
>>
>> I've decided that the best thing to do is to reinstall Fedora
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> and why did you not
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> * login after press CTRL+ALT+F3 as root

He did that, unless you read "get an alternate TTY" to mean something else.

> * type "cat /var/log/yum.log"
> * yum downgrade "package1 package2 package3"
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> ?????????????????????????????
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> this is not windows
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