I seemed to get past my network issues by setting up Network Manager. But now, when I enter my username and password into GDM, it grinds for awhile and then I'm presented with a white screen with only a mouse pointer. I can move the pointer, but nothing else works. Since GDM doesn't give me any option to go to the command line, there is absolutely nothing I can do. The only thing different I did was that I installed and ran Gnome Shell. X windows may be trying to run that again and failing. But with no output of any kind, it's a little hard to troubleshoot.
Is there any key combination that will get me to the command line from GDM?
I'm running an HP DV7 laptop (if that helps at all).
Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim <at> gmail.com> writes:
I seemed to get past my network issues by setting up Network Manager. But now,
when I enter my username and password into GDM, it grinds for awhile and then I'm presented with a white screen with only a mouse pointer. I can move the pointer, but nothing else works. Since GDM doesn't give me any option to go to the command line, there is absolutely nothing I can do. The only thing different I did was that I installed and ran Gnome Shell. X windows may be trying to run that again and failing. But with no output of any kind, it's a little hard to troubleshoot.
Is there any key combination that will get me to the command line from GDM?
I'm running an HP DV7 laptop (if that helps at all).
Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or F3...F6) - switch to tty
After you have logged in again, check System-Preferences-Startup Applications and Options and clear Automatically remember ...
JB
JB <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com> writes:
... Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or F3...F6) - switch to tty
After you have logged in again, check System-Preferences-Startup Applications and Options and clear Automatically remember ...
Actually there is a little more to that ...
You should start with GDM configuration $ rpm -ql gdm and look for /etc/gdm/... files.
Then get familiar with X and desktop environment config scripts in general in /etc/X11/xinit/ . Also check for file /etc/sysconfig/desktop , if any.
Fedora (Red Hat) docs are good source.
Perhaps you should consider starting in non-GUI environment first. File to configure is /etc/inittab . After getting to know the internals better you may (or not) return to starting in GUI environment again.
JB
Thanks. I got to the command prompt and deleted a few things under .config and I was able to log in again. Lost some settings, of course. But that wasn't a big deal, since I started fresh on this distro yesterday.
On Sun, 2011-02-27 at 13:36 +0000, JB wrote:
JB <jb.1234abcd <at> gmail.com> writes:
... Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or F3...F6) - switch to tty
After you have logged in again, check System-Preferences-Startup Applications and Options and clear Automatically remember ...
Actually there is a little more to that ...
You should start with GDM configuration $ rpm -ql gdm and look for /etc/gdm/... files.
Then get familiar with X and desktop environment config scripts in general in /etc/X11/xinit/ . Also check for file /etc/sysconfig/desktop , if any.
Fedora (Red Hat) docs are good source.
Perhaps you should consider starting in non-GUI environment first. File to configure is /etc/inittab . After getting to know the internals better you may (or not) return to starting in GUI environment again.
JB
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