Fedora Core 4 Logon

Roger Grosswiler roger at gwch.net
Wed Mar 23 20:13:13 UTC 2005


glenn wrote:
> Luciano Junior wrote:
> 
>> Hi, when I try to logon the first time, using GNOME desktop, i put my
>> login (root) and password, and no screens appear.
>>
>> The blue screen stay there, nothing happend. I alredy tried to
>> reinstall, but same happened.
>>
>> Any one has a suggestion?
>>
> look at the archive for this list (Mar only).  Your problem is a known 
> fault that should be fixed in test 2
> 
> If you use KDE, you shouldn't have an issue.
> 
> Alternately, boot to run level 3 (you are probably defaulted to 5).
> Then login on the text screen.
> The use 'startx' to bypass gdm.
> The gnome gui should then work good.
> 
> Also see the comments abt using yum on a text screen to update gdm.
> That should clear your issue.
> 
if you want to boot regularly, do once init to runlevel 3 and then do a 
complete update 'yum update' of your system, this should resolve the 
issue with gdm. When you reboot next time, you should get in as usual.

HTH
Roger




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