Can't boot after an update

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> Message: 13 Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 00:39:39 +0200 From: Kevin Kofler 
> <kevin.kofler at chello.at> Subject: Re: Can't boot after an update To: 
> fedora-list at redhat.com Message-ID: <gv9tvb$6vf$2 at ger.gmane.org> 
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii DB wrote:
>> > Got myself to a CLI, logged on as root, edited inittab to start in level
>> > 3.  Login under my normal username is accepted, try startx, screen
>> > flashes some text (something about authority, I think from the bit I can
>> > see), screen goes black then comes back to the CLI with several repeats
>> > of a message about keyboard not compiling, error not fatal, waiting for
>> > X to terminate.  Logon as root is accepted, gives a grey screen & then a
>> > Gnome window comes up & seems  to work OK.
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> What video driver? Did it get upgraded recently?
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NV, but I don't think it has been changed in a long time.
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>> > Tried the Live CD.  The original non-KDE one works OK, the KDE CD comes
>> > up to a login window wanting a password for "liveuser" (which it never
>> > did before - this system was installed from the F10-live-kde disc
>> > without any problem);  I've tried all the passwords I can think of & it
>> > just keeps coming back to the login screen.....
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> The default password on the live CDs is blank, i.e. don't enter a password,
> just press ENTER. No idea why the autologon isn't working though.
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Umm, the blank password was my first guess, & didn't work.
>         Kevin Kofler
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Thanks for your help Kevin. It turns out /tmp was full, & once I'd 
cleaned out the .trash the system started up again without problem.

I'm now trying to find a script that will clean /tmp automatically on a 
regular basis. (I think part of the backlog is due to the switch from 
Gnome to KDE)

Thanks again

Dave