After upgrading FC5 to FC9 from CD-Rom disks the computer no longer boots to the X-Window system. Instead it drops to a text mode login prompt such as the one you see if you press CTRL-ALT-F1 in the GUI.

After logging in, I typed

[root@linux2 ~]# X

The computer responds with a screen full of messages ending with:

Fatal Server Error:
no screens found
[root@linux2 ~]#

Can anyone help me? Thanks,

Roger

what graphics card are you running?

maybe run yum update from the terminal to update everything.

if you are running nvidia install the nvidia drivers, but the kernel has "nv" drivers that should work. nvidias proprietary drivers are "nvidia".

here is my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file which is for intel integrated graphics.

Is there an easy way to probe the system for the hardware type? I think it is using intel, but I'm not sure.

I tried yum update and received dependency errors, tried yum --skip-broken update and it still won't update. I get a message stating
Skip-broken could not solve problems. Missing dependency, and conflict errors seem to be preventing yum from updating.

Due to other problems I discovered, and the purpose for which I keep this computer running, I decided to reformat the HD and reinstall Linux. Other than problems reading the CD (which I assume is from my drive needing cleaning) Linux installed OK and I now have Gnome running correctly.

Items that broke during the installation included (but may not be limited to) my Apache webserver which failed to load any of the authentication modules making Apache unusable. Also I could no longer access Windows NT drives with the system. I had installed the fuse package to permit access, and lost the functionality. I tried using yum to update the system, but it kept refusing to upgrade some of the packages. For example, When I requested an update of the perl package and all it's support files it refused to install perl stating that the support packages required the older version, then wouldn't install the newer support packages because they expected the newer perl version. This occurred for more than 1/2 of all installed packages.

Problems introduced by a clean installation will be discussed under different threads as they are discovered.

Thanks for the time taken to help me solve my upgrade problem.