F17 recalcitrant X server

[Joe Zeff]

On 04/29/2013 01:28 PM, Beartooth wrote:
> 	No. Not as my userid, nor as hers, nor as root; not on her
> keyboard, and not from mine over ssh.

You need to change to a different TTY first, then log in.  Do you mean 
that you can't get to a login prompt, or that you can't log in once you 
do?  (I'm not nitpicking here; I may not know how to fix this, but I do 
know that the two possibilities probably imply different things.)