after upgrading fedora rawhide this morning, no graphical desktop

[Robert P. J. Day]

  recently, i upgraded my ASUS G74S laptop to fedora rawhide and it
was running nicely. then this morning, i did another "yum update",
which appeared to update well over 200 packages (including a slightly
newer kernel), after which, when i booted, i had no graphical desktop
anymore, just the little blue and white fedora logo.

  i can still switch to VC2 and log in at the command line (where i am
now), so i can certainly check log files, but i don't see anything
immediately amiss.

  i rebooted both to the earlier rawhide kernel, and even back to the
latest fedora 20 official kernel -- same result, the fedora logo in
the middle of the screen on VC1, but the ability to log in on another
virtual console.

  has anyone else run into this? i have an nvidia graphics card, and
am running the nouveau driver. i'll keep poking around the log files,
and if you have any suggestions, i'm all ears.

rday

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Robert P. J. Day                                 Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA
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