On Wed, 05 Oct 2011 09:25:00 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
So I installed F16 Beta on a low end box and deselected GNOME and selected XFCE in the installer. System installed but gdm does not complete its startup. [....]
See my thread on the fedora general list beginning Sunday and titled "SL6 to F16??" which turned into one about xfce. Briefly, the answer there turned out to be this:
ssh into the unfinished startup and do init 3 (or get into level 3 any other way you can). At your user prompt, type "startxfce4" and hit enter.