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[Discuss] Upgraded fedora 15 to 16 unable to boot



On 01/02/2012 01:03 PM, Matthew Gillen wrote:
> On 1/1/2012 6:12 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> Once I was able to boot, then I was not able to log in on Gnome3, but
>> that was probably the customizations I added,
>
> There was a problem with the caribou package (it was noarch in F15, in
> F16 the x86_64 installer would update to the i686 version).  The
> solution is to log in on the console, and "yum erase caribou", then
> re-install (if you want; it's not really needed for most
> environments).  A simple "yum update" might work as well, since I
> think they figured out what the problem was.  But the solution I
> described first worked for me on several machines.
I got it fixed. I've seen that problem many times before with both gnome
and kde.

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