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Old 04-01-2012, 09:46 PM   #1
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Unhappy Fedora 16 will not boot after installing new programs


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 (pidwhatever 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.
 
Old 04-02-2012, 06:01 AM   #2
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You installed EVERYTHING? That's just mental and dumb. I'd say you deserve everything you get if you do something like that!

You should be able to use fedora dvd to boot into rescue more and then hopefully pivot into the system image it detects. From there you can try uninstalling RPMs one by one and rebooting to see if you can get in but personally I wouldn't hold my breath.
 
Old 04-05-2012, 06:00 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by bplis* View Post
Out of curiosity, I installed everything in the Fedora, Livna, and RPM-fusion repositories
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Amy Ideas on how to get my system functioning again?
Grab the installation media, insert it, and install. Do not repeat the installation of everything, just install what you specifically want.
 
  


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