Login on Fedora 17

[Paul W. Frields]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:34:57AM -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 09:29 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> > On 04/11/2012 09:08 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
> > > Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17 looking for when it
> > > boots up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried has
> > > failed. Please help.
> > > --
> > > Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > I'm assuming you are using the latest RC of F17? Sounds to me like you 
> > didn't name the system you installed it on, so it defaulted to 
> > 'localhost'.  When you installed, did it not ask to add a new user 
> > account?
> > 
> > Have you tried logging in with root?
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Mark Haney
> > Software Developer/Consultant
> > AB Emblem
> > markh at abemblem.com
> > Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.0-8.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> GUI login? Echo other comment about setting up a mortal user during
> install or first boot.  Have you tried to login an root via CLI?
> (ctrl-alt-f2)
> 
> But really questions for F17 should be directed at the test list. F17
> isn't prime time yet.

Looking past the number '17' in the question -- this is a very general
question common to all Fedora releases.  When you see "localhost
login:" on the screen, you either don't have a graphical environment
installed, or the graphical X Window System failed to start.  If that
happened, it's likely that firstboot, the graphical helper that lets
you set up a user account, didn't run, so you may not be able to log
in as a standard user.

You can still login at this prompt with your 'root' account and
password.  From that point, you can look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see
what happened that caused your X Window System to fail.  If you want
to post that for people here to look at and offer advice, please
*don't* attach the file to your email.  It will probably be too big
and your message won't come through.  Instead, post it somewhere like
http://fpaste.org and send a link to your paste here.

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