Login screen not showing up
Michael Lai
ml at michael.lai.name
Thu Sep 1 09:25:44 UTC 2005
Michael Lai wrote:
> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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?
>>
>>
>>
> Actually, I am using putty from Windows XP.
>
And no, I don't have cygwin.
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