White Screen After Reboot (Fedora 8)

[Tod Merley]

On Dec 4, 2007 6:44 PM, Marwan Aziz <marwan at wanmar.com> wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> I just rebooted my Fedora 8 desktop and after going through the startup screen
> (which shows all of the details of the startup) instead of getting to the login
> screen, I get a white screen and the only visible thing is the mouse pointer.
> Here are the details of my machine:
> - HP Pavilion a1654n
> - Intel Viiv Core 2 Duo E6300
> - Nvidia GEforce 7500LE
> - Fedora 8 (2.6.23.1-49.fc8)
>
> I do not know what to do to fix this. Please help.
>
> Thanx.
>
> - Marwan
>
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Hi Marwan Aziz!

I would like to think so.

Lets try some things:

1. Do a "ctl+alt+F1" and see if it brings up a tty login screen.  If
so, log in as root - go to /var/log and at least look at Xorg.0.log,
dmesg, and messages.  If you can, copy the files to a flash drive or
other removable media.

2. If the "ctl+alt+F1" does not work do the above from a live CD.

3. Examine the files for clues.  You are looking for warnings and errors.

4. Google the errors along with hardware information (video card -
mother board (chipsets)).

5. If no errors there check the disk file system integrity (man fsck).
 It is probably not wise to repair any errors found at this time.

Please let us know what you find.

Tod