Fedora 11 upgrade to Fedora 12 in VirtualBox 3.0.10 and X issue.
I upgraded my Fedora 11 installed in VirtualBox 3.0.10 today to Fedora 12 Constantine from the DVD ISO. After final reboot I found that I get progress bar at the bottom when the Fedora 12 boots up, but then I get a black screen with only a cursor at the top left corner and nothing.
Solutions was simple:
- Clicked in VBox window.
- Alt-2
- Logged in as root.
- Checked
/var/log/Xorg.0.log - Found that
vboxvideomodule failed to load and screen was not found. - Mounted
/dev/sr0in/media/VBOXADDITIONS_3.0.10_54097 - Run
./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run shutdown -r now
System booted this time properly nicely displaying gdm login screen.
Once logged, update utility reported 119 updates ready to install already. It's Wed Nov 18 00:43:22 GMT 2009 ;)
$ cat /etc/fedora-release returned Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
Hope this will help someone.
--Grzegorz "Gescape" Witkowski 00:54, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
#fedora rules...
I lunched my IRC client tonight. For a long time I was wondering which language really to use... Perl or Python? I am not an experienced programmer, so I thought I will ask people from community what they think and maybe this will help me to make my decision a little bit. I asked and straight away I was referred to this: "Bringing up topics in an IRC Channel which require personal opinions are highly discouraged as they tend to degenerate into flame wars. Such questions include "Which is a better desktop environment KDE or Gnome?", "Which audio player is better Audacious or Amarok?" users who initiate those types of questions are considered to be polling. In the #fedora channel people that continually pose those types of questions may be asked to leave the channel." I am on IRC for over 10 years and it was a place of freedom of speech to me. Place where I could ask a question and find an answer. Either I do not understand something or freedom is really not a freedom on #fedora. "You do how we tell you or you leave... Do not ask questions we do not like..." This is what it says to me really. In Poland before 1989, when the country was run by communistic government it was called censorship... but you on #fedora think that it is appropriate to say people what you can ask about and what you cannot, even the questions are really related to Linux and Open Source...
--Grzegorz "Gescape" Witkowski 23:36, 6 June 2010 (UTC)