Bad update - X11 corrupted

[Martin Stone]

Oh, also, installing Fedora over Fedora *shouldn't* mess anything up in any 
important way...

Dick Brown wrote:
> 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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