On 11/16/2011 11:40 AM, Patrick Boutilier wrote: >> On 11/16/2011 11:29 AM, Claude Jones wrote: >>> I'm not sure where to go with this. I had one machine preupgrade quite >>> nicely. This one is failing to start X. I can get to a prompt and I've >>> tried running yum update, which brought in a few new packages, but I >>> still can't get a desktop. I'm using the nouveau driver and looking >>> through the Xorg.0.log file doesn't yield much. The last video reference >>> I can spot in the log says: >>> >>> AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch >>> Nouveau(0): NVLeaveVT is called >>> >>> Googling on that second line brought up some posts about switching to >>> the VESA driver, but, I don't have an xorg.conf file, and I can't >>> generate one because system-config-display is not present on this >>> system... >>> >>> Can any one suggest something? >> >> Additional detail: The 'acorn' thingy appears during boot, and at the >> end of the process, the little rotating circle appears momentarily >> appears followed by the splash screen, then, after another moment, the >> splash screen goes away and a little computer icon appears in the middle >> of the screen with some text that says, "Oh no, something has gone >> wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Contact your >> administrator".... >> > > I have seen something like that when the system tried to login to Gnome > which wasn't installed. Does the kdm/gdm login prompt come up? > > Also, can you ctrl-Alt-F2 to get a console prompt? If so login and type > startx to see what happens. the login prompt never comes up - I can't remember if I had gnome fully installed on this machine, though I probably did, as I usually do I do get a prompt on Ctl-Alt-F2 and have tried to start X as both me (user), and as root, and it fails both ways - from root, I get this: xauth: file /root/.serverauth.1984 does not exist Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.xo-lock and start again Removing that file has no effect -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
