Blue screen in Fedora

Christofer C. Bell cbell at jayhawks.net
Fri Feb 27 00:49:28 UTC 2004


On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 00:31:09 +0200, Chadley Wilson wrote
> I have never in 5 years seen a blue screen of death in linux. 
> Mr Coenders could you give more detail on the events before you get the
> blue screen and what thscreen looks like maybe some error messages.
> Thanks

It sounds to me like GNOME isn't starting for some reason and the user is 
reporting the blue background painted by gdm (as configured 
in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf) as a BSOD when that's not what it actually is.

Is that more or less correct?

--
Chris

"Build a man a fire and he will be warm for the rest of the night.  Set 
a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life."  -- Unknown





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