Login screen not showing up

[Michael Lai]

gb spam wrote:

>>>Actually, I am using putty from Windows XP.
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>And no, I don't have cygwin.
>>    
>>
>
>from putty, run "telinit 3" that should stop X running and you should 
>have a text login on your linux host. log in as root, then run
>system-config-display.  after that, "telinit 5" will restart X
>

I tried running system-config-display from the prompt.  I get a blank 
screen and this is what I get after a while:

audit(:11480588): major=252 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (1)
audit(:11480564): major=113 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (2)
audit(:11481406): major=252 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (1)
audit(:11481394): major=113 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (2)
audit(:11482535): major=252 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (1)
audit(:11482480): major=113 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (2)
Window manager warning: Lost connection to the display ':17.0';
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the window manager.
audit(:11729076): major=252 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (1)
audit(:11514059): major=113 name_count=0: freeing multiple contexts (2)