Upgrading an E-series Thinkpad, a year or two old, running Fedora
31, via CLI, the upgrade kept failing with complaints about i.686 -- till
I did "dnf remove mate-*.i.686" -- then it completed, or seemed to. This
machine was behind an HDMI KVM switch, and was giving a display spread
across both its own monitor and my regular one, with four panels on each.
Since the upgrade reboot, when I KVM to the Thinkpad, I see blank
flashing panels on each monitor. There is no terminal emulator anywhere.
I've tried a couple times to reboot it to rescue mode, but it ignores
that.
I took it out from behind the KVM switch, but that didn't help.
I can get to the line at the beginning of the boot process which
is supposed to make it boot into rescue mode, but that has no effect.
Do I go looking for a live distro that may let me mount the Thpd's
hard drive and try to fix the panels somehow?
Do I just call it a total loss and install F 32 from a freshly
downloaded iso on a thumb drive?
Is there a third way?
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Not Quite Clueless Linux Power User
I have precious (very precious) little idea where up is.
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