So, I have Fedora 16 64-bit. Out of curiosity, I installed everything in the Fedora, Livna, and RPM-fusion repositories. I used the command:
yum install \* --skip-broken
Everything installed within a day, and I used my system for a few hours afterward before I logged out to allow all I the updates to kick in. I tried to login, but upon logging in I lacked the top panel that contains/does everything as of Fedora 16. However, a program that I have installed and configure to start at boot, conky, started and I did get. My conky screen to appear. So I rebooted via tty3 (ctrl+alt+F3). However, on reboot I got dracut errors before anything had a chance to load. So I did what I had done before with dracut errors, and booted to an older kernel to uninstall dracut. However, when booting my older kernels, I get a "display manager failed to start" error and have no GUI, and my personal login shell in TTY# do not work, however the root one does. Also, quite a few other services failed to start. Then, when I attempt to uninstall dracut via yum, I get an error of packagekit (pid
whatever number)) holding the yum in lock. So I killed the process that had that pid #, but the process still held the yum lock and didn't die. I also randomly, obtained even by letting the system fit for a few minutes, got an error of
[(number).(number)] bcm-watchdog:23006 map pfn expected mapping type uncached-minus for (numbers/letters)-(numbers/letters), got write-back
in my console. So I am unable to do anything on my computer right now, besides minor bash commands. Amy Ideas on how to get my system functioning again? Oh, and I tried every process described numerous times.