Fred Smith ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on 29/06/2013 17:59:
On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:52:16PM +0200, antonio wrote:
> antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on
> 29/06/2013 15:39:
>> antonio montagnani ha scritto / said the following il giorno/on
>> 29/06/2013 15:17:
>>> Today I issues a fedup-cli network 19 command (
>>>
>>> At the end of procedure that ended right when rebooting I get
>>>
>>> Bad news:
>>>
>>> I get a black window if I login as any user with a fedora logo on the
>>> bottom of screen but I can use tty and then issue a startx
>>>
>>> Good news
>>> after issuing startx my old video card (Geforce FX5200) works fine with
>>> Gnome 3.
>>>
>>> Why do I have only F18 kernel??
>>>
>>> Tnx
>>>
>>
>> more info:
>>
>> I have two users, when I issue startx with user A (that is coming from
>> F18) I get the message oh no something went wrong, while a fresh user B
>> can issue startx flawlessy.
>>
>> Also root can startx with no problem
>>
> when the screensaver starts I get authorization failed, i.e. I have
> to hard reset the machine!!!
Antonio:
Right up front I'll say I have no idea about the various problems you
report (apparently) from having used fedup.
However, this last one, you almost certainly DO NOT need to reset the
machine. If I read you right, it's stuck in the screensaver, you can't
authenticate to get back to your login.
If that's right, you can do one of at least a couple different things:
1. try CTRL-ALT-BKSP, which should kill your X session and return it to
a login. Note that this only happens if that response to CTRL-ALT-BKSP
hasn't been disabled by default.
2. switch to another VT, log in, kill the X session that's stuck.
3. probably a dozen other choices that don't come to mind right now.
In my F19 system, CTRL-ALT-BKSP seems to be disabled by default. you
can enable it in the gnome tweak tool. click "typing" and in the resulting
list select "Key sequence to kill the X server", set it to
"Control + Alt + Backspace. then the next time you have this kind of
fail, just do the 3-finger-salute and voila.
Fred
tnx for the reply.
I have decided to reinstall F18 from the net. The machine is connected
to the home printer and scanner so it cannot stay out-of-service for a
long time.
I have the doubt that at this stage of release, my fedup-cli 19 network
command may have got the wrong packages, (for example no F19 kernel,
that is quite surprising)
--
Antonio M
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