Woe is me! FC2 -> FC3

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> 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.

Can you boot into single user mode?


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