On Sunday 20 December 2009 20:01:35 Anne Wilson wrote:
Well, it finally finished, just as I'd begun to think it was
stuck.
Unfortunately it booted to a black screen. I tried several times to boot
with an edited grub entry, without success. This last time it suddenly
started up a blue screen with the Fedora infinity sign - and I thought I
was winning - but it's still sitting there, a black screen with a flashing
cursor at the top left. If I don't crack this soon I'll end up wiping it
and installing from disk.
Later - well, at least I got as far as a text login. Now I have to try to
get the display working.
First things first, /var/log/Xorg.0.log should tell you what is wrong with X.
Second, what does cat /etc/fedora-release says?
system-config-display is not installed. Yum
tells me that it can't retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for
repository:fedora. I have already disabled adobe repo and ATrpms repo, and
I guess that it's going to fail on all the others too, by the sound of
it. Any ideas?
Assuming you are not running rawhide I suggest to clean the metadata for yum:
yum clean metadata
then if the problem with fedora repo still persists you can try to comment the
mirrorlist line (add a # at begin) and uncomment the above line of baseurl.
Another possible option is to move the mirrorlist from https to http. FWIW the
last two options are fallback moves and I don't recommend them for general
purpose, in one or other occasion for update purposes I had to play with them
to get the system to a working state from where all worked.
Anne
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José Abílio