Re: [PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote: I found a suggestion on the net to add nvidia.modeset=0 to the end of the boot line in Grub. Tried it, didn't make any difference. But I might not have put it in the right place because Grub is the new one and doesn't havea boot line, at least not

Re: [PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-17 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:30 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: And then I discovered that if I let it boot to the GUI, even though X wouldn't start, I could do Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console, and having done so the ethernet was working. Why it wasn't working when I booted to

Re: [PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-17 Thread Joshua Lock
On 17 November 2011 13:12, Rogan Creswick cresw...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:30 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: And then I discovered that if I let it boot to the GUI, even though X wouldn't start, I could do Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console, and having done

[PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-16 Thread John Jason Jordan
I had Fedora 14 x86_64 working fine on my Thinkpad T61. Last night I made a full backup and today I upgraded to Fedora 16. The upgrade proceeded withoui error. I can boot into Recovery Mode (gives me terminal as root), but I can't get X to come up. Probably unrelated but, while at the command

Re: [PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-16 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:24:38 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard rshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote: The error message (echoed in /var/log/Xorg.o.log) is: Fatal server error: no screens found. John, Back up xorg.conf to a different name (I made

Re: [PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-16 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:59:28 -0800 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo: Probably unrelated but, while at the command line as root, I have no network. I did ifconfig eth0 up and then I could see eth0 in the list of interfaces, but I still cannot go anywhere. I can't even ping my

Re: [PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-16 Thread Richard C. Steffens
On 11/16/2011 07:10 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:59:28 -0800 John Jason Jordanjoh...@comcast.net dijo: Probably unrelated but, while at the command line as root, I have no network. I did ifconfig eth0 up and then I could see eth0 in the list of interfaces, but I

Re: [PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-16 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:56:30 -0800 Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net dijo: On 11/16/2011 07:10 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:59:28 -0800 John Jason Jordanjoh...@comcast.net dijo: Probably unrelated but, while at the command line as root, I have no network.

Re: [PLUG] Desperate! Fedora 16 upgrade killed X

2011-11-16 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 21:59:58 -0800 Richard C. Steffens rst...@comcast.net dijo: On 11/16/2011 06:41 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 18:24:38 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepardrshep...@appl-ecosys.com dijo: On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, John Jason Jordan wrote: The error message