Blue screen in Fedora

[Chris Spencer]

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/ref-guide/s1-grub-runlevels.html

You want run level 3 (non-gui)

Login as root
Finish your update or roll back whatever got messed up 
then try just starting x with startx

Either that or you could "init 5" and try to launch that run level
again.

-Chris

On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 14:29, taehyun nam wrote:
> Hellow all, 
> I have a fedora-version blue screen. Yes, the blue
> screen as of Windows. 
> Two days ago, I updated some utilities using Synaptic
> and tries to shut down the computer. However, it did
> not shutdown and got stuck with a blue screen with the
> rolling sand watch that used to give a way to
> text-mode. So, I just push the button to turn it off. 
> 
> When I turn on the computer the next time, booting
> went well, doing starting utilities and so on until it
> stop right before the log-in screen. And it again was
> the blue screen with the watch where it stoped. 
> 
> It doesn't boot from CD-ROM; Booting disk didn't help
> either. 
> 
> Is there any one who can help me with this? 
> I'm really frustrated and my wife is mad and demands
> Windows back. 
> 
> ssh was blocked so that my friend couldn't help me.
> I'd like to know at least how to let ssh go through. 
> 
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.    
> 
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