Login screen not showing up

[Michael Lai]

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.