Black page instead of login screen-Fedora2

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Feb 15 16:44:27 UTC 2005


powderkeg at snow.email.ne.jp wrote:
> I gotta say, someone is NOT doing their testing very well. I just updated 
> Fedora2, and now I cant access the login screen. Just get a black screen 
> where the screen should be. What are my options. Cheers.
> 
> EDIT: I gotta add that this' the 2nd time this has happened after a YUM update 
> with Fedora2. Last time, I had to reinstall...won't be a happy camper if I 
> gotta do again..this happens when booting from any kernel...now coming to you 
> from Knoppix3.7

Let me guess: you use the nvidia proprietary drivers and you've got a 
new kernel?

Does booting the old kernel still work?

Paul.




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