Woe is me! FC2 -> FC3

[Andrew Mathews]

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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.
|
| 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
| _______________________________________________

Sounds like you may have removed some of the core fonts required for the
console. This sounds like it is coming from a missing package that *was*
there and no longer is, such as an xorg package. If you can get it
booted back up, even from a cd, check your remaining packages and make
sure that the fonts-xorg-base and fonts-xorg-*dpi packages are there.
You can use yum groupinfo "Compatibility Arch Support", provided you can
get in, or use the groupinstall for reinstalling the packages. Make sure
you can boot the most recent kernel as this was fixed in the 2.6.7-rc3
kernel.
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.7-rc3
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