Folks,
All was well with my F17 system until yesterday night when I did a yum update and rebooted. Now, I get the Fedora logo ¨filling up¨ until it switches to text mode and I see it shows "started display manager" and hangs there.
Of course I can log-in in text mode via ctrl-alt-f2, but for some reason X wont start. Thinking it might have been a hardware issue (gfx cart not properly seated in the slot) I removed it, cleaned it with compressed air, cleaned the card contacts, and properly inserted it back.
Then I tried the two older kernel revisions at the grub2 screen, thinking maybe the last kernel had some incompatibility. To no avail, same result.
So, I´m running out of clues as to what to do. I´m curious if any of you running F17 with the testing repos experienced any hiccup wrt X not starting up?.
If not, I´d really appreciate clues wrt how to get my system back to a working state.
Thanks in advance. FC
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:12, Fernando Cassia fcassia@gmail.com wrote:
So, I´m running out of clues as to what to do. I´m curious if any of you running F17 with the testing repos experienced any hiccup wrt X not starting up?.
If not, I´d really appreciate clues wrt how to get my system back to a working state.
OK, I´m progressing but not at the speed I´d wish. I looked at the Xorg log files and the last thing it loaded before the hang were the vbox drivers.
I remember the last thing I had installed before the reboot was the vbox ose plugins.
So I went to the xorg libs dir and removed vbox*.
I guess I was wrong to remove the files without removing the references to them, as now the system boots to a point where the monitors put themselves in power-saving mode (blinking power led) and I can´t even do ctrl-alt-f2 to get to a login prompt.
So, I´d really appreciate if someone more knowledgeable about Xorg snafus would give me a generic recipe to get my system back to at least vesa mode.
I guess booting from grub 2.0 in single user mode would be first right? FC
On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 16:13, Fernando Cassia fcassia@gmail.com wrote:
So, I´d really appreciate if someone more knowledgeable about Xorg snafus would give me a generic recipe to get my system back to at least vesa mode.
I guess booting from grub 2.0 in single user mode would be first right?
Okay the silence was educative, for me, :) forced me to learn things on my own. Indeed, as I suspected, the problem was the Vbox add-ons (VirtualBox-OSE-Guest).
I manually went to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and removed 00-vboxvideo.conf
Rebooted and all is well.
FC