Re: F-16 broken for runlevel 5

2011-11-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/15/2011 07:50 PM, Jim Cromie wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: >> On 11/15/2011 06:30 PM, Jim Cromie wrote: >>> "somethings gone wrong, . contact administator" >> >> There's only one way to deal with programmers who think that's an >> appropriate error message: gi

Re: F-16 broken for runlevel 5

2011-11-15 Thread Jim Cromie
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 11/15/2011 06:30 PM, Jim Cromie wrote: >> "somethings gone wrong, . contact administator" > > There's only one way to deal with programmers who think that's an > appropriate error message: give their GPS coordinates to OADS > (http://www.im

Re: F-16 broken for runlevel 5

2011-11-15 Thread Vincent Murphy
Hi Jim, I had the same issue with my 64bit machine (my 32 bit machine work perfectly). I ended up following the instructions about removing directories described at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/fedora-35/fedora-16-oh-no-something-has-gone-wrong-912796/and my machine is now up an runnin

Re: F-16 broken for runlevel 5

2011-11-15 Thread Joe Zeff
On 11/15/2011 06:30 PM, Jim Cromie wrote: > "somethings gone wrong, . contact administator" There's only one way to deal with programmers who think that's an appropriate error message: give their GPS coordinates to OADS (http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/OADS/anvil_chorus.html). Grovelling thr

F-16 broken for runlevel 5

2011-11-15 Thread Jim Cromie
I just upgraded my 64bit box to F-16 using preupgrade, and the graphical login is busted. It displays the nice bathyscath (deep sea) screen for a second, then goes black with a sad computer face |:-(| saying non-specifically "somethings gone wrong, . contact administator" Box boots ok to run