On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:37:20 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
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." [....]
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.
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.
On the login from the login screen, the unhappy computer pic is still there. However, I now have two routes open to prompts. One is essentially a form of the above.
Also, from another machine on my LAN, I did ssh -Y; it produced a non-GUI connection from which, both as user and as root, gnome-session- properties produces :
** (gnome-session-properties:25660): WARNING **: Unable to start: Cannot open display:
(with nothing else after "display:" on its line, and a fresh prompt on the line below.)
I experimented a little, but if what I got tells anyone anything, I'd be glad to know it. Here it is :
[root@Hbsk1 ~]# startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.27151 xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.
Please consult the Fedora Project support at http://wiki.x.org for help.
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. [root@Hbsk1 ~]# rm /tmp/.X0-lock rm: remove regular file `/tmp/.X0-lock'? y [root@Hbsk1 ~]# startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.27265
_XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes.
Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running
Please consult the Fedora Project support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information.
Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. [root@Hbsk1 ~]# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|more [ 71169.181] _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateList ener() failed [ 71169.182] _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already ru nning [ 71169.182] Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes. [ 71169.182] Fatal server error: [ 71169.182] Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running [ 71169.182] Please consult the Fedora Project support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 71169.182] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 71169.182] [root@Hbsk1 ~]#