On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 21:37:20 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote: > Beartooth <beartooth <at> comcast.net> writes: > >> Nope, alas! I get a picture of a sad face on a screen, telling me >> "Oh no, something has gone wrong." [....] >> > If you didn't have the terminal, the bug reports indicate how to fix >> > things in general by going to a VT and deleting a file. In the latter >> > case, you'd still have to run g-s-p to disable session saving >> > afterwards, otherwise the same thing would happen again on the next >> > login. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console > > Normally in Fedora, the GUI is on Alt-F1 and you can get to a text > console with Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F3, etc. There is a bug > (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503267) where X can end up > on something like F7 instead of F1, so if you don't find the GUI working > on F1, try the others. On the login from the login screen, the unhappy computer pic is still there. However, I now have two routes open to prompts. One is essentially a form of the above. Also, from another machine on my LAN, I did ssh -Y; it produced a non-GUI connection from which, both as user and as root, gnome-session- properties produces : ** (gnome-session-properties:25660): WARNING **: Unable to start: Cannot open display: (with nothing else after "display:" on its line, and a fresh prompt on the line below.) I experimented a little, but if what I got tells anyone anything, I'd be glad to know it. Here it is : [root@Hbsk1 ~]# startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.27151 xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority Fatal server error: Server is already active for display 0 If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again. Please consult the Fedora Project support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. [root@Hbsk1 ~]# rm /tmp/.X0-lock rm: remove regular file `/tmp/.X0-lock'? y [root@Hbsk1 ~]# startx xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.27265 _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateListener() failed _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already running Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes. Fatal server error: Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running Please consult the Fedora Project support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up. xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to X server xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error. [root@Hbsk1 ~]# cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log|more [ 71169.181] _XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: ...SocketCreateList ener() failed [ 71169.182] _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: server already ru nning [ 71169.182] Warning: Xalloc: requesting unpleasantly large amount of memory: 0 bytes. [ 71169.182] Fatal server error: [ 71169.182] Cannot establish any listening sockets - Make sure an X server isn't already running [ 71169.182] Please consult the Fedora Project support at http://wiki.x.org for help. [ 71169.182] Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information. [ 71169.182] [root@Hbsk1 ~]# -- Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
