fedora 7 down after update

[Tuna]

Glad that caught my eye--I'm going to install Fedora on my laptop pretty
soon!

> found it; and i think this has happend to me before.
> gdm was missing. I dont know how but the gdm package was not on my system.
> I just ran yum install gdm then reboot, and I was back in business.
>
> On 7/24/07, Josh Coffman <joshcoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>   I'm working on this now. I'm hoping someone is online and happens to
>> know a solution off the top of their head. I started an package update
>> on my
>> fedora 7 box and let it go. The machine went to screen saver mode after
>> a
>> while. When I went to check on it, it wasn't responsive expect for
>> barely a
>> flicker of the screen. (i use a blank screen saver.)
>>   I switched to the console (ctrl+alt+1) and rebooted. I'm thinking the
>> install might have still been running.. maybe.
>>
>>   The update included a kernel update.
>>
>>   When it booted, it stops when trying to load GDM and the message on
>> screen is:
>>
>>       INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>>
>>   I do have the nvidia driver installed with the kernel module from
>> livna.
>> I wonder if its having a problem. In the past though, I would get a
>> screen
>> notifying me that xorg crashed while trying to start and offer to update
>> xorg.conf.
>>
>>   I tried yum update (had to remove ffmpeg to get the update to work)
>> and
>> rebooted, but still the same result. It appears packages are updated. I
>> don't know what the problem is or how to fix it. Quite frankly, I'm
>> tired of
>> messing around with stuff like this and just want to watch tv with my
>> wife.
>> I would really appreciate any help.
>>
>> Thanks
>> josh
>>
>>
>>
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