Fedora12 freezes at boot after switching desktop.

[PrinceSharma]

Hello,

As my inspirations forced me to download Kde desktop on my Fedora12 with default gnome desktop.
It took me whole night to get the big download by -

"Yum install @kde-desktop"

It got installed successfully.

What I did after that was -

"switchdesk kde"

...Voila...and strange thing happened. The gnome remained there but all the kde features started getting included in there like koffice, kopete etc . Now I waited for around 3 hrs. but only lower task bar of kde got installed and that too very unstable.
So I thought of logging out and starting a new session with kde but It never got logged in again. It froze at boot time with Fedora logo, damn.

I have two kernels installed and configured at boot, one is 2.6.31.X (default) and the other is 2.6.32.X which I installed to get my BCM4312 wireless activated and all the activity being done on this.

I'm not able to boot from any of the kernels with same freezing problem persisting. Kindly educate and help me.

Please reply folks, I don't wanna do a fresh install again !



Thanks
Prince Sharma

[Lazydog]

What I would do is as follows;

Edit /etc/inittab and change the following line

id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault:

This will boot you into the CLI. There you can log in with your user name and password. Once logged in run

startx

This will output a lot of information to the screen and when it fails look at what is printed to the screen. And if it doesn't fail or load you can press CTRL-C to kill it and then see what was printed to the screen.

You could also look in /var/log for the Xorg.#.log file and see if this has anything in it that could point you to what is failing.
Sounds like you do not have the complete package installed.

I don't use Fedora but I thought the KDE packages were installed as a groupinstall. See man yum.

[PrinceSharma]

Hi,

Fedora is not booting up , it gets stuck up at the logo itself. How am I suppose to enter and change the lines in file ?

At grub menu too, I tried to change the kernel line by putting 1 to get it into single user mode or 3 to put in CLI mode , but it doesn't just boot up, the same freezing problem in the middle.

Any suggestion?

[Lazydog]

I don't know what the problem is. you have 2 choices. 1. faddle with it until you can give some useful information as to what it is doing so that someone can make an educated guess or 2. re-install.