Woe is me! FC2 -> FC3

[Michael Hipp]

My upgrade from RH9 -> FC1 went pretty well. The upgrade from FC1 to FC2 
went pretty well. Was getting ready for FC2 -> FC3 when things went 
south and kept going.

I decided to uninstall lots of unneeded stuff. The yum "group" commands 
look wonderful. So I did a couple to make sure it worked and then did:

   yum -y groupremove <long list of package groups>

Then I detached the 'screen' session, logged out and went to bed. (I was 
logged in via SSH from my laptop at home.)

This morning could not get back in. Went down there and couldn't log in 
over the LAN. Couldn't log in on the console. Console had a couple of 
messages about restarting init. Did a hardware reset. Won't boot. Last 
visible message is something about init restarting then a repeating 
message about "spurious ack something accessing the hardware directly 
might be Xfree". But this system boots to runlevel 3 so this is likely 
not the case.

I think I'm doomed to just upgrade to FC3 with disks in hand.

The long list of package groups I removed was this:
   KDE S/W Development
   KDE
   Compatibility Arch Support
   DNS Name Server
   Engineering and Scientific
   Graphics
   FTP Server
   Games and Entertainment
   MySQL
   News Server
   Office/Productivity
   Sound and Video
   X Software Development
   x86 Compatiblilty Arch Support

These correspond to Fedora's application groups. Was just trying to slim 
things down from the "everything" install I did on it way back when.

Any thoughts appreciated. (But right now am not high on this yum method 
of upgrading FC distros. I'd feel better if I could blame this on *me* 
instead of Fedora or yum.)

Michael