Hi all, I just upgraded my kernel from 2.6.14xxx to 2.6.17xxx (using YUM) with disastrous results. With the default runlevel set to 5, X fails and I'm left with just a blank screen and a big black 'X' as a pointer. When I default to runlevel 3 and 'startx' the desktop starts but something is definitely not right in there b/c it takes around 5 minutes to start up. Interestingly enough, I also noticed that when I did it that way, I couldn't use the internet. I could connect, but then when I started the browser it pretended there was no connection (same for Evolution).
Any ideas what could be causing this, or what info I should gather to troubleshoot the problem? While I'm here, I noticed while I was playing in the command line that when I login using text, it gives errors: Keymap 0: Permission Denied Keymap 1: Permission Denied Keymap 2: Permission Denied KDSKBENT: Operation not permitted loadkeys: could not deallocate Keymap 3 I gather that it's having trouble choosing a keyboard layout (?) or whatever but I've no idea how to fix it as I've never seen that error before. (it's been I while since I manually started X, so I guess the problem could've been there for ages and I just haven't been aware of it) Also, (I know, it's turning into a long post :P) in startup, I'm getting an error when starting Logical Volume Management: Incorrect metadata header checksum (off the top of my head). *And* there's an awful lot of text flying past the screen during startup, so I was wondering; is there a log file or something that I could look at to try to figure out what the problems are during startup? I'm not sure how it happened (probably because I spend all my time in KDE and no time at all in the terminal :D) but suddenly my system seems to have a sh!tload of problems that I didn't know about. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Oh, almost forgot.... FYI: Fedora Core 4 (2.6.14xxx - 2.6.17xxx) KDE 3.5.2xxx Pentium 4 - 2.6GHz Nvidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra (never had any probs with this card... installed Nvidia drivers once. have clean installed since then and never bothered to install drivers again) I doubt that it matters in this instance but there's bucketloads of RAM and swap. thanks for bearing with me guys, arsenic. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
