yes, today it was the issue for me too. SL61 after upgrade "yum upgrade; reboot" did not appeared on the screen of my VM. I did 1. Ctrl/Alt/F1 and get the text screen 2. yum --releasever=6.2 update 3. reboot the VM and vu a la the system started as expected (with X-server). Best regards, Andrey On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Jean-Christophe LAMBRY wrote: > Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:32:14 +0200 > From: Jean-Christophe LAMBRY <[log in to unmask]> > To: Boris Goldowsky <[log in to unmask]> > Cc: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: X11 server won't start after yum upgrade > > Le mercredi 11 juillet 2012 a 16:51 +0000, Boris Goldowsky a ecrit : > > I also experienced this problem today. I was able to start up the system again after executi > ng > sudo yum downgrade xorg-X11-server-common xorg-X11-server-Xorg > > Hopefully the matching driver packages for the new Xorg version will show up in the yum repos > itories soon. > > Boris > > Thanks a lot. The yum downgrade command resolved the problem. > > Jean-Christophe > > > -- ____________________________________________________________________ NAME: Andrey Y. Shevel (Chevel) : EMAIL: [log in to unmask] \ Computing Systems Department : http://hepd.pnpi.spb.ru/CSD | TEL : +7(81371)36040 | POST ADDRESS: Petersburg Nuclear Physics Inst. | FAX : +7(81371)36040 | 188300, Gatchina, Leningrad district, Russia. | ______+7(81371)46256________________________________________________ /