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Upgrading to 19 by fedup: bad and good news

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Today I issues a fedup-cli network 19 command. At the end of procedure that ended right when rebooting I get

Bad news:
I get a black window if I login as any user with a fedora logo on the bottom of screen but I can use tty and then issue a startx

Good news
after issuing startx my old video card (Geforce FX5200) works fine with Gnome 3.

Why do I have only F18 kernel??

posted Jun 29, 2013 by anonymous

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I have two users, when I issue startx with user A (that is coming from  F18) I get the message oh no something went wrong, while a fresh user B  can issue startx flawlessy.
Also root can startx with no problem

commented Jun 29, 2013 by anonymous

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Right up front I'll say I have no idea about the various problems you report (apparently) from having used fedup.

However, this last one, you almost certainly DO NOT need to reset the machine. If I read you right, it's stuck in the screensaver, you can't authenticate to get back to your login.

If that's right, you can do one of at least a couple different things:
1. try CTRL-ALT-BKSP, which should kill your X session and return it to a login. Note that this only happens if that response to CTRL-ALT-BKSP hasn't been disabled by default.
2. switch to another VT, log in, kill the X session that's stuck.
3. probably a dozen other choices that don't come to mind right now.

In my F19 system, CTRL-ALT-BKSP seems to be disabled by default. you can enable it in the gnome tweak tool. click "typing" and in the resulting list select "Key sequence to kill the X server", set it to "Control + Alt + Backspace. then the next time you have this kind of fail, just do the 3-finger-salute and voila.

answer Jun 29, 2013 by anonymous
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