On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:48 PM, Aaron Konstam akonstam@sbcglobal.netwrote:
On Wed, 2012-04-25 at 11:51 -0600, JD wrote:
After upgrading from fc14 to fc16 using DVD iso, I booted up after the upgrade, and tried to log in on the gnome welcome screen. Well, I got the blue screen but my desktop never came up and a banner popped up Oooops - something went wrong ... logout and try again.
I was never able to go beyond that no matter how many times I retried.
Then I performed the updates. After the updates, I rebooted.
Now I get no gnome welcome screen. The screen stays blank, and the disk activity light on the computer remains on, until I press the Return key. After that the disk activity light goes out, and screen remains blank.
PS: my graphics chip is the legacy Radeon Mobility 9600/M10
I tried to switch to any one of the vty's (Control-Alt F2 or F3 or F4) to no avail. Nothing happens.
Any ideas what to look at and fix in single user mode?
Thanx,
JD
My prejudice would not to upgrade but to install F16 as a new installation. There so many differences between F14 and F16 that I would not trust an automatic upgrade to work. But on the other hand some people do this and it works.
I will try one more solution suggested on the web, and failing that, I think I will do a fresh install, and then install all the missing rpms that I had on fc14 (assuming they have been ported to fc16.)