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Description of problem: I upgraded to 16 Beta using DVD - no errors reported. I rebooted and can only see the wallpaper and the cursor as rotating cirle. That`s all. I tried to start gdm from command-line but the same result.
The problem is that I had only XFCE installed before and not Gnome3. After upgrade the system switched to Gnnome desktop despite it`s not there. Thus GDM or startx tried to lauch Gnome instead of XFCE4.
Hi, I think I see the same problem. In my case no upgrade is involved. This is a fresh install of Fedora 16 beta on a VM: virt-install --location=http://mirror.lib.ucdavis.edu/fedora/linux/releases/test/16-Beta/Fedora/x86_64/os/ ... Select XFCE and de-select GNOME in the installation choices. The install proceeds, reboots and adds a user, but then X startup fails with the message: Failed to load session "gdm-shell" Running "yum update" and re-booting does not help (as of today). Andrei
... and after "yum groupinstall 'GNOME Desktop Environment'" the display manager lets me select and load the XFCE session. Andrei
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