[CentOS] Problem upgrading from CentOS 6.4 to 6.5

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Gilbert Sebenste
<sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu> wrote:
>
>> If you hit escape when the splash screen starts, can you tell which
>> service startup is hanging?
>
> It starts all the services, and what's in rc.local, but has some sort of
> X11 error. I went to /etc/X11 to try to remove the xorg.conf file so that
> it would recreate a new one, but I don't see one. I don't know for sure
> if it's X or Gnome that's shot at this point. Log files don't help me
> much except for the X11 error. I went and also erased .X1 and .X2.lock
> files to see if that would help; nada.

Did you try another 'yum update' after completing your old transaction?

Does 'startx' work from a text mode login?  If not, maybe the error
message will give you a hint.

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   Les Mikesell
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