Latest updates break graphic start of Fedora

[Antonio M]

2008/7/9 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
> 2008/7/9 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/7/7 Antonio M <antonio.montagnani at gmail.com>:
>>> 2008/7/7 Mike Burger <mburger at bubbanfriends.org>:
>>>>
>>>>> On Saturday 05 July 2008 16:06:32 Antonio M wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So are you saying that you tried the existing alternative kernel, offered
>>>>> in
>>>>> grub, but that no longer worked?  That would be very peculiar indeed.
>>>>>
>>>>> OK - I've read your bug report.  I don't believe that there is any way
>>>>> that
>>>>> installing a new kernel would break the existing ones.  You almost
>>>>> certainly
>>>>> have something else going on.  You may well have to wait to see whether
>>>>> anyone else identifies the problem.  FWIW, 2.6.25.9-76.fc9.i686 is one of
>>>>> the
>>>>> kernels you mention, and it certainly works on my Fedora box.
>>>>
>>>> Anne:
>>>>
>>>> Please see some of my contribution to this thread.
>>>>
>>>> I'm having a similar issue to Antonio's...I've got a fully updated F9
>>>> install, and I noted that as of a couple of kernel releases ago, my
>>>> workstation, which boots to runlevel 5, does not actually appear to start
>>>> up the X desktop either.  Instead, it switches to TTY7 with a blank screen
>>>> and blinking cursor.
>>>>
>>>> What I need to do, to get around this, is ALT-F1, log in, init 3 and then
>>>> init 5 in order to get the system to actually bring up the X login screen.
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>>>
>>> Mike,
>>>
>>> have you read my final report saying that I have eventually solved the
>>> problem??? It was a graphic driver from test-updates that was causing
>>> the problem: now I have gone back to a fully F9 system and evrrything
>>> is o.k. For my info, which graphic card do you use???
>>>
>>>
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>>> Antonio Montagnani
>>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>>
>>
>> Warning
>> and same driver has been pushed to the rawhide repo!!!! I will file a
>> bug against it!!!!
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Antonio Montagnani
>> Skype : antoniomontag
>>
>
> sorry...
>
> I mean to the F9 updates repo!!!
>
> --
> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : antoniomontag
>

as same upgrade has been pushed to rawhide, I find exactly the same
problems.....I reverted back to the original rpm and everything is o.k

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Antonio Montagnani
Skype : antoniomontag