Fedora 9 update failure

I plan on updating to Core 10 when it comes out. But for now how can I
get my Core 9 working again. I have installed core 9 on another HD on
the same system, so I can use it for comparison. I don't know where this
Xmanager system is failing to load. It doesn't even die because of re
spawning. It just keeps restarting the Xmanager. So now I have a working
system I can find the difference on and an updated one that I can't.
Where do I look?

Jesse Benton wrote:
> I plan on updating to Core 10 when it comes out. But for now how can I
> get my Core 9 working again. I have installed core 9 on another HD on
> the same system, so I can use it for comparison. I don't know where this
> Xmanager system is failing to load. It doesn't even die because of re
> spawning. It just keeps restarting the Xmanager. So now I have a working
> system I can find the difference on and an updated one that I can't.
> Where do I look?

Bring it down to runlevel 3, rather than runlevel 5, with the 'telinit 3'
command run as root.

Then run a direct comparison between the installed list of RPM's, and look in
/var/log/X* for errors, and look at what happens when you start X with the
'startx' script.