bug on fedora 17: login screen doesn't show up

Jeff Gipson jeffagipson at gmail.com
Wed Jun 6 15:32:08 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 10:24:23PM +0800, Fajrian Yunus wrote:
>hi all,
>
>asking for help. whenever i start my computer, by the time i (supposedly)
>reach the login screen, i'm only shown the background image, WITHOUT the
>login box. i can see the background image (fireworks image), i can see my
>mouse cursor, and i can move my mouse around. but the login box is nowhere
>to be found. HOWEVER, if i make my computer sleep, then turn it on again,
>immediately the login box shows up and i can login without problem. i
>reinstalled my fedora 17, it's still like this. interestingly, when i
>install my fedora 17 as virtual machine (i use kvm), the problem doesn't
>show up at all.
>
>any help is appreciated.
>
>thank you :D

	### End of Message from Fajrian Yunus ###

This is *similar* to an issue I'm having (or had) with F16 and F17, and 
possible related. I get the login (GDM, I suppose) fine, but after 
entering my password, the login dialog disappears and I'm left with the 
fireworks background as well. No session starts. I have to kill X to get 
back out. I had to resort to using the multiuser.target and running 
startx. I've updated the OS via yum since the initial F17 upgrade, and 
reset the default.target to graphical.target, and haven't had the 
problem recur, but I'm not confident that the problem won't resurface.

-- 
×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×
   Jeffrey A. Gipson
×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×-×
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 4147 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20120606/d16eefb9/attachment.bin>


More information about the users mailing list