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Old 02-27-2010, 10:30 PM   #1
ecesuren
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blank screen and blinking cursor,,


Hi,
I have Fedora12 and it was working fine all through. I Installed Skype yesterday and since it was working, I installed the following using instructions from a blog. These were to install
yum install libXv.i686*
yum install libXScrnSaver.i686*
yum install qt.i686
yum install qt-x11*.i686
yum install libsigc++ libsigc++.i686 qt.i686 qt

Skype started to work well.
However, after I rebooted the system, all I get is a blank screen with a blinking cursor. I am able ot get to tty by doing ctrl+alt+f2 but am not sure how to proceed from the above. I also erased the above packages thinking that that might solve. But it hasnot solved the issue.

Any help is most appreciated.

Regards
suren
 
Old 02-28-2010, 06:36 AM   #2
kaz2100
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Hya,

Do you see any error (or suspicious) message? check files under /var/log/...

What kind of hardware?

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