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| 02:52.34 | GGD | hey jsmith |
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| 16:21.31 | ggd | morning stickster jsmith |
| 16:21.37 | jsmith | Morning ggd |
| 16:22.00 | ggd | got issues |
| 16:22.20 | ggd | my fedora 12 died LOL |
| 16:22.27 | ggd | here at work |
| 16:23.16 | jsmith | No good... |
| 16:23.25 | jsmith | How exactly did it die? |
| 16:23.44 | ggd | will boot but the x/gnome will not work |
| 16:23.55 | ggd | i rebooted after a kernel update |
| 16:24.17 | ggd | and i rebooted and i tired all the kernels on the system and nothing |
| 16:24.30 | stickster | Sounds like something else is the problem then, not the kernel update. |
| 16:24.44 | ggd | ahh |
| 16:24.47 | stickster | You can paste the content of your /var/log/Xorg.0.log to fpaste.org so we can see what's happening. |
| 16:25.00 | ggd | if i could get into it |
| 16:25.08 | ggd | i can't even get a CLI |
| 16:25.10 | stickster | Were you using a proprietary driver for NVidia, ATI, etc.? |
| 16:25.25 | ggd | no it was jsut out of the box |
| 16:25.35 | ggd | just |
| 16:26.10 | stickster | OK. At boot time, hold down the Ctrl key so that you see the boot GRUB menu. Then hit [Tab] to edit the entry for your current kernel (usually at the top). Add ' 3' (that's a space and a 3) to the end and erase the 'rhgb quiet' part. |
| 16:26.28 | stickster | Then hit [Enter] to accept the changes, and [b] to boot the system. |
| 16:26.56 | stickster | That should keep the system from starting up in graphical mode. That way you can log in easily and begin to diagnose. |
| 16:27.48 | stickster | has to disappear for a little bit to get cleaned up and get some grub (the vittles kind) but will be back and check in. |
| 16:27.49 | ggd | hmmmm |
| 16:28.40 | stickster | http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#textonly has instructions as well |
| 16:29.40 | ggd | got it |
| 17:09.07 | stickster | checks in to see if ggd pasted anything |
| 17:10.47 | ggd | brb |
| 17:20.45 | ggd | hey stickster |
| 17:29.56 | stickster | ggd: yeeeeeeeeeeessss? |
| 17:31.32 | ggd | sorry geting lunch |
| 17:32.10 | ggd | i can get it to boot although when i try to log in i get the screen but then it freezes and the comes up with the gnome having an error |
| 17:32.46 | ggd | and something about avahi |
| 17:32.49 | stickster | ggd: The specific error is important. Otherwise you're asking me to just guess. |
| 17:33.06 | ggd | i understand my good man |
| 17:33.17 | stickster | See if you can transcribe it and paste it here |
| 17:35.31 | ggd | i rebooted and now i am at the grub prompt |
| 17:37.24 | ggd | is that where i need to be? |
| 17:41.13 | ggd | stickster: i got it to CLI mode |
| 17:44.10 | stickster | ggd: OK, now you can do the following |
| 17:44.24 | stickster | ggd: Do you have fpaste installed? Run 'rpm -q fpaste' to check. |
| 17:45.03 | ggd | http://fpaste.org/wo43 |
| 17:45.13 | ggd | thats the log |
| 17:45.27 | stickster | Ah, sweet |
| 17:45.37 | ggd | did it work? |
| 17:46.03 | stickster | OK, this is no longer the problem, seeing as how you got a login screen |
| 17:46.12 | stickster | Xorg is working OK according to this, which I expected |
| 17:46.38 | ggd | i know my creds work |
| 17:46.43 | ggd | as i get to that ( i think) |
| 17:46.53 | stickster | Try pasting your .xsession-errors file (in your home directory) |
| 17:48.17 | ggd | not there |
| 17:49.32 | ggd | and i am in the home direcotry |
| 17:51.50 | ggd | on a seccond note the machine that you built for me at the last install fest over heated and shut down the other night |
| 17:52.02 | ggd | brb |
| 18:04.19 | stickster | ggd: Hm, you don't have a /home/<username>/.xsession-errors file? |
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| 21:48.19 | ggd | no i don't |
| 21:48.28 | ggd | and i am going to get out of here and go home talk to you later? |
| 22:01.29 | stickster | sure thing -- you'll need to ping my name if you want me to see it |
| 22:01.38 | stickster | Never mind, you're gone :-D |
| 22:01.48 | stickster | heads to fedex to mail something |
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