May be you can try to boot from Fedora CD and type 'linux rescue' to see what happens in your system. Hope it helps. Bartolomeus --- Richard Ayer III <rwa1(a)cec.wustl.edu&gt; wrote: >I hate to make a post like this, but I'm totally >confused. > >I've been using FC2T1 since it came out; until now >the only real problem I'd run into was X crashing >due to psaux. >But, today I downloaded kernel version 2.6.3-1.106 >as well as about 500 other updates (I had already >downloaded all of the XFree86 updates the day before >and had no problems). But now I cannot boot the >system with any version of the kernel. The X server >starts up, but the screen just turns black with the >'X' cursor. Then I press Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to the >login screen, and the system is hanging just after >the step where the swap space is activated/mounted. >So, I can never anywhere near a login prompt to try >to diagnose the problem. One other thing: when I >downloaded all of those updates, I did it in two >groups; the first group had the kernel updates, all >lib* updates, and I think systembase (something like >that), and the second group was everything else. >When I started up2date for the second group, it >couldn't show the little pictures on the 'forward', >'back', and 'cancel' buttons (the blue arrows and >red X). Then I restarted gkrellm and it said that it >could load some .png files. So I reinstalled libpng >(I think version 1.2.5) and logged out of KDE. The X >server wouldn't start and give me the blue login >screen; so I rebooted, and haven't been able to get >into Linux since. > >If anyone sees any of the symptoms I've mentioned or >has any ideas, I would greatly appreciate any help I >can get. > >TIA, >Richard Ayer III __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Get better spam protection with Yahoo! Mail. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools

I haven't tried the 'linux rescue' idea yet, but I may if things don't get resolved some other way. Well, changing from rhgb to nogui I was able to complete the boot process and login to the machine. One thing I noticed, X still tries to start up; but stops with the blue background and a message that some picture of type png couldn't be read. That's the third time I've seen it complain about png files. I had downloaded the libpng-1.2.5 source, compiled and installed it (both before this problem, and again after to try to fix it). I noticed that it installed to /usr/local/lib, but version 1.1.2 (I believe) is installed in /usr/lib; could this be causing a conflict that is creating this problem? Richard Ayer III

Unfortunately, they did not fix the problem for me; the new kernel did add a new one though. I have a 3Com 3c905B NIC using the kernel-included 3c59x module. The new 109 kernel complains about a whole list of parameters it doesn't like (which, of course, I forgot to write down); thus the module won't load under the 109 kernel. I'm still baffled, especially since the updates fixed the issue for you Rich.