Upgrade from Fedora 7 to 9, no GUI

Kevin J. Cummings cummings at kjchome.homeip.net
Fri Jun 27 01:56:12 UTC 2008


JUSTIN TAYLOR wrote:
> I tested Fedora 9 on my desktop using a Live disk and it worked fine.  I 
> downloaded the full set of CD's and performed the upgrade, but now I do 
> not have my GUI desktop.  It boots in text mode.
> 
> Any ideas where to start looking?

Your log files:	/var/log/messages
		/var/log/dmesg
		/var/log/Xorg.0.log

You haven't given us a lot to go on here.  What video subsystem?  Are 
the right drivers installed?  3rd party or Fedora supplied?

F9 is using 2.6.25 kernels and some drivers have problems with that (too 
bleeding edge for them).  Various problems with 2.6.25 have been 
reported with both the nvidia and fglrx 3rd party drivers.  Both have 
OSS counterparts that may run (with lack of accelerated features) until 
the bleeding edge problems get solved.

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