Fedora: Re: FC2 boot/login problem (continued)
Re: FC2 boot/login problem (continued)
Source: http://linux.derkeiler.com/MailingLists/Fedora/200504/2993.html
From: Paul Murtaugh (murtaugh_at_stat.oregonstate.edu) Date: 04/14/05
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:55:(PDT) To: fedoralist@redhat.com
On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:43:00AM 0400, Bob Chiodini wrote: > On Wed, 20050413 at 18:07 0700, Paul Murtaugh wrote: > > I turned off the rhgb option and can now see all of the > > services starting up, without any problems. I then briefly > > see a text login prompt (which apparently isn't functional), > > followed by a dark screen with hourglass, when normally I'd > > get the graphical login screen. My only option at this > > point is to turn off the computer. > > Some details about the hardware might help get some resolution to the > problem. > > In the mean time: Try booting to runlevel 3, by appending a 3 to the > end of the kernel command line in grub. The start up process will stop > at the text login. Login as root and run startx, hopefully one of the > many messages that appear may point to some error. It might help to > pipe the startx output to a file. >From Aaron Konstam: > Before trying startx I would use the systemconfigdisplay command to > configure your xorg.conf file. What you describe is the classic > "display not properly configured" symptom. Logging in as root on level 3, I've tried the following things: 1. 'systemconfigdisplay reconfig': 'Trying with ATI Mach 64'. to a plain blue screen without any text. back to text mode with the warning 'SESSIONMANAGER environment variable not defined'. I can't for the life of me figure out how to define it. 2. 'startx' leads to a small blue 'FC2' rectangle in the center of a dark screen, but nothing more 3 'gnomesession' leads to 'cannot open display'
Fedora: Re: FC2 boot/login problem (continued) How do I get the gnome window manager to kick in? This is an old ABIT BM6, CEL400 system with an IBM 10.10 GB IDE/UATA hard disk and ATI XPERT@ PLAY 8MB AGP video card and I don't know what else is relevant. Paul Optional reading: I'm trying, really. I always flounder for a few hours before writing to the list. Would I be better off using a commercial RH product instead of fedora? It seems like I'm not cut out for this!
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