Login screen not showing up

[Michael Lai]

gb spam wrote:

>>>>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.
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>>>sounds like your X config could be borked, try running
>>>system-config-display and then restart your X server
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>>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.
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>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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Actually, I am using putty from Windows XP.