Can't login after booting from Fedora 18 KDE Spin Live

Vojtěch Rýznar ryvo at centrum.cz
Mon Jun 10 18:18:38 UTC 2013


>>>> Good day, I have downloaded and burned on DVD image
>>>> Fedora-18-x86_64-Live-KDE.iso. After booting from the DVD a login screen
>>>> appears where user name 'liveuser' is filled in and password is blank.
>>>> I'm not able to log in. I tried blank password and passwords like root,
>>>> liveuser, demo but it always brings me back to the login screen. Please
>>>> advise. Thank you in advance. Vojta
>>> try login to
>>> "KDE Plasma Workspace (failsafe session)"
>>> instead.  Most likely the session is crashing for some reason (easiest
>>> explanation is video driver crash trying to enable desktop effects).
>> Unfortunately I can see no such option in the boot menu.
> The option to switch to failsafe session is in the login screen, not in the
> bootloader. Look for a blue (?) arrow that will bring down a popup menu, where
> you can pick the session.
>
> Cheers,
> Dan

Oh, I see. Thank you. Unfortunately I'm not able to login even with 
failsafe session. The problem still persists. Is it possible to install 
Fedora 18 from terminal? That's the only option that works for me.

Vojtech


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