Bad update - X11 corrupted

[Dick Brown]

Thanks to those who have replied so far.

I did make a boot disk, and can get to a system prompt with "linux 
single".  The problem I'm having is that I can't get a graphical login.  
When the login prompt comes up, the system automatically tries to go to 
the graphical login.  Unfortunately, it can't get there, so keeps 
cycling from text login to graphical login and back, so I can't do anything.

There was one other thing I tried, and maybe this was bad.  When I 
couldn't log in normally after the failed update, I tried reinstalling 
Fedora over itself.  It seemed to go fine installing over RH8, so I 
figured it would be okay to install over itself, too.  Would this have 
messed it up?

Thanks,
Dick

jludwig wrote:

>>Hi all,
>>    I recently decided to upgrade from RH8 to Fedora.  I downloaded
>>the 
>>.iso files, burned them and installed without a hitch (checked the 
>>md5sum and the finished CDs first).
>>    Unfortunately, when I performed the system update, the X11 package
>>was corrupted.  Now I can't boot into Fedora normally.  I can get in 
>>through the "Linux rescue" from the install disk, but I'm afraid I
>>don't 
>>know what to do from there.  I'm at that dangerous stage where I know 
>>enough to get myself into trouble, but not enough to get myself out,
>>so 
>>I don't really want to touch anything without some advice first.  Is 
>>there an easy fix to this?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Dick
>>    
>>
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>What were the error messages, if any, while booting?
>This will give me/us an idea how to help you fix this problem.
>jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
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