Can't Login to Fedora
Timothy J. Finucane
speljamr at speljamr.com
Fri Feb 18 09:46:05 EST 2005
How do I boot into init? Everytime the machine boots it goes through the
boot process and then goes to the login screen that won't show.
Also,I have a copy of Knoppix. Would that make it easier to get at the
conf & log files.
Tim
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 22:23, Jesse Jarzynka wrote:
> Timothy J. Finucane wrote:
>
> >I have been playing around with a copy of Fedora to get used to the way
> >things work with Red Hat (My other car is a SuSE). Today I used up2date
> >to get all of the updates on the box complete. However, after doing the
> >updates and then rebooting the machine I no longer get a login screen
> >after bootup. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas how I fix it
> >without redoing the entire machine?
> >
> >You help is appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Tim
> >
> >
> >
> >
> Are you using NVIDIA's downloaded driver? Because if you are, you will
> have to reinstall it for the new kernel. Or you could edit your
> /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and change your driver back from "nvidia" to
> "nv" in the meantime. Another reason that tends to happen is when your
> hard drive fills up. Boot into init and check those things, and check
> your logs. -Jesse
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