F19 --> F18 feasible?

[Joe Zeff]

On 10/16/2013 01:13 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Oct 2013 10:39:05 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
>
>> On 10/16/2013 08:22 AM, beartooth at comcast.net wrote:
>>>
>>> I rebooted, hoping for a login screen. No such luck.  I tried typing
>>> xfce and enter, and xfce4 and enter, and finally startx, for lack of
>>> any other idea; they all failed.
>>
>>   From a CLI:
>>
>> startxfce4
>
> 	Aha! I tried that, first as root over ssh, and got screensful of
> error messages; hit ^C, and tried it as userid (still over ssh); got more
> errors. So I rebooted.
>
> 	The monitor on the T30  showed (and still shows) normal-looking
> boot messages as far as one saying "Started Install ABRT coredump hook,"
> marked OK, but no further. I.e., it offers no login screen.
>
> 	So I tried startxfce4 again as userid over ssh -Y, and got more
> errors. :-(
>
>

You might try asking at the Xfce forum: http://forum.xfce.org/index.php 
because this might be DE specific.  However, before you do, have you 
made sure that ssh is set up to deal properly with X?  (I don't think 
that it is by default.)