antonio montagnani wrote:
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)
Doesn't surprise me, I have yet to see it work on a machine more complex than a
barebones with one drive and using LVM. Someone posted a better(?) way, using
you to do the updates by revectoring the default revision. I'll see if I can
find that quickly Monday.
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