[ltp] Fedora 7 Upgrade Issue

[Clark Williams]

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Chris Schumann wrote:
> I just upgraded to F7 from FC6 using the DVD and Anaconda. Now when I log
> in, Gnome tells me its keyboard map isn't the same as X's, and then locks
> up. I can do a very few things, like click the X, and it asks if I want to
> Force Quit. If I do, the dialog comes right back, but it's empty (no text or
> controls), and no menus ever appear for Gnome.
> 
> I can switch to a console and do various things, but I'm not sure how to
> proceed to fix it.
> 
> I have a ThinkPad T60 (ATI X1400 video, 1400x1050 display)
> 
> Any tips?
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 

I am not a graphics person, but here's what I'd try:

First thing you might want to do is change your run level to 3 (instead of 5).
There's probably some way-cool graphics utility to do this, but I just edit
/etc/inittab and change the initdefault field to 3. This way you can login to a
console, try some configuration stuff and then start X manually to see if it helped.
You can start it like this:

$ startx 2>&1 | tee x.log

and that will record all the output of the X server in x.log. Handy at times.

Another thing to try is to create a temporary account (useradd foo) and login to that
account and start X. If it all starts up properly, you've got something whacky in the
myriad of .gnome* directories. My Big Hammer(tm) solution is to move those off and
start over.


Hope that helps.

Clark
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