Beartooth <beartooth <at> comcast.net> writes:
Nope, alas! I get a picture of a sad face on a screen, telling me
"Oh no, something has gone wrong." It says to log in again, so I tried.
Three times. No joy. Nor can either of the other users on the login
screen (whose passwords I have) get even that far. Both get messages
about a failure to update a .ICEauthority file.
I don't know what this file is, but it's in your home directory
(~/.ICEauthority) and googling for ".ICEauthority" turns up a lot of references
to what sounds like your error.
Of course, root can't log in either; and Ctrl-Alt-Delete does
only a logout, not a reboot. I hit the reset button. Still no joy.
> If you didn't have the terminal, the bug
> reports indicate how to fix things in general by going to a VT and
> deleting a file. In the latter case, you'd still have to run g-s-p to
> disable session saving afterwards, otherwise the same thing would happen
> again on the next login.
I saw talk of that in one of the bugzilla discussions, and
refrained from pointing our there that I haven't the foggiest notion of
what is meant by going to Virginia Tech (what VT stands for around here),
nor how to do it electronically.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console
Normally in Fedora, the GUI is on Alt-F1 and you can get to a text console with
Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F3, etc. There is a bug
(
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503267) where X can end up on
something like F7 instead of F1, so if you don't find the GUI working on F1, try
the others.