Someone kindly pointed me to http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ to grab a Fedora 14 live image and I helped myself to the "Deskstop" x86_64 image yesterday. Installed this on an old x86_64 system with an Asrock motherboard. The installation actually went pretty nicely and was quick, and it did sort of boot. But the boot process came to a halt with an error message that I've forgotten and dumped me into a bash shell, when I was expecting a graphical login screen. A 'yum update' didn't fix things. Running 'startx' from the bash prompt didn't work. I did ome Googling and maybe I'll check the grub configuration for 'nomodeset' entries to remove. Maybe I'll just install Fedora 13 on this hardware and wait a bit on 14 even though Firefox x86_64 in Fedora 13 appears to bring the entire graphical system to its knees. Or maybe there is a bug in metacity.
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Bob Cochran
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 21:22 -0400, Bob Cochran wrote:
Someone kindly pointed me to http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/nightly-composes/ to grab a Fedora 14 live image and I helped myself to the "Deskstop" x86_64 image yesterday. Installed this on an old x86_64 system with an Asrock motherboard. The installation actually went pretty nicely and was quick, and it did sort of boot. But the boot process came to a halt with an error message that I've forgotten and dumped me into a bash shell, when I was expecting a graphical login screen. A 'yum update' didn't fix things. Running 'startx' from the bash prompt didn't work. I did ome Googling and maybe I'll check the grub configuration for 'nomodeset' entries to remove. Maybe I'll just install Fedora 13 on this hardware and wait a bit on 14 even though Firefox x86_64 in Fedora 13 appears to bring the entire graphical system to its knees. Or maybe there is a bug in metacity.
Is it the same thing I am getting that says to hit control-d to continue or type in root password for maint? If so, hit control D to continue, then should get it again, and this time put in root password. Once at a shell, just hit "init 5" and that will get you to graphical login. It's a bug or some sort and guess still being worked out. Think it's a systemd thing, or something along those lines.
Mike Chambers
sounds like fedora 14 common bugs to me:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F14_bugs#systemd_package_update_breaks_...
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