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I have two laptops - DELL C540 and a DELL C610 both running fine with FC4 (install was a dream)
The older of the two is a backup laptop, so I have decided to move that onto FC6, before upgrading my prime laptop.
FC6 has gone in as a fresh install, in graphical mode, OK - or so it appeared. But when I boot and try to log in as root, it is in character mode. I have seeen some other threads re ATI-Radeon, but in those cases they use system-config-display to help resolve the issue - I don't seem to have that on the system - any ideas as to what I need to do to get the graphical environment to work?
OK - so now I've grabbed a synaptics RPM and installed that via YUM and I can now start X.
BUT - how do I now get Gnome to start?
I'd never thought about it before - but how does Gnome get kicked off - ie what config file says that user's desktop is to be Gnome or KDE or ....
At the moment, after I start X I get a terminal session and Firefox started in some basic graphical environment (like the old RH 6) - presumably this is some form of default window manager..(looks like twm from a ps list)
Looking in my root's home, I do have .gconf/d directories and a .gnome2 - so why no gnome?
I ntried to reinstall and got it so that it started ok.
It seems that on the first install, I had retries while reading the discs and that seems to have screwed up the install somehow. Sods law, when reinstalling I partitioned the discs incorrectly and ended up not being able to upgrade the system with the 217 updates that it finds - so I've had to reinstall. Each time on reinstall, if I get retries on the discs, the install takes forever and screws up X/synaptics.
I'm going to try burning a fresh set of discs and see how those install.
The whole problem was caused by duff install discs.
I used my prime laptop to extract the iso images from the CD's (dd if=/dev/cdrom of=FD6D?.iso where ? was the disc number) and then used the sha1sum to make sure that the check sums were the same as the original downloadable images. I then used nautilus (right click on the FD6D?.iso and choose Write...) to write the image back to a clean cd (at X12 speed).
Using these cd's I didn't get any 'blah.rpm missing .... retry?' messages on install. The install was far faster and went in clean.
So even though the 'Retry' option seemed to work fine, something must have been corrupted.
The odd thing is that the extract of the ISOs from the original install CDs on my main laptop created correctly summed images (so they must have been correct on the discs themselves - ie were burnt ok originally) - and they passed the check media test before the first install.
Posted this just in case someone else gets the same problem.
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