F8 system crashed

[Tod Merley]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:12 AM, Barry Yu <barryyu-cts at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> During start up noticed "avahi daemon     Failed", and
> then "Greeter appears to be crashing. Attempting to
> use a different one", this Greeter keeps attempting to
> do the same but never can start the log in.
> Need help to fix it if can avoid fresh installation.
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Hi Barry Yu!

Avahi is a network service discovery utility.

The greeter not being there makes me wonder how your HD is doing.

I would try a <Control><Alt><F1> to see if you can obtain a terminal
login.  If not, use a rescue disk or the Live CD.  Once in a terminal
enviornment I would look in /var/log/ at messages, dmesg, etc... for
why the machine crashed.  I would also use fsck to see how the HD is
doing.

Have fun!

Tod