Login screen not showing up

gb spam gbofspam at gmail.com
Thu Sep 1 09:19:42 UTC 2005


> >>Not sure what I have done but I installed Fedora 4 several weeks ago and
> >>everything was fine.  However, a couple of weeks ago I suddenly can't
> >>see my login screen anymore.  I can see my system booting up and I can
> >>see the show/hide details screen and then I get a blank screen when all
> >>the services are started.  I don't know where to begin to analyze this
> >>problem.  Right now, I am relying on ssh to remotely login to my
> >>server.  Thanks for any possible help.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >sounds like your X config could be borked, try running
> >system-config-display and then restart your X server
> >
> Does system-config-display work through a ssh session?  I just tried it
> but nothing happens and I had to do a Ctrl-C to kill it.

it should do.  do you have an X server running where your ssh'ing
from?  maybe you need ssh -X or ssh -Y to ensure X will be tunneled?




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