On Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:06:32 +0000, Beartooth wrote: [....] > But something is still wrong. It gets part way through booting, > then gives me an error box saying it failed to load session "gdm-shell" > and a Log Out button. Clicking the button just takes you back to the > same error box. > > At that point, it does accept an ssh connection. Using one, I > tried yum update, and also added a few things; but no joy. I ssh'd into it again, became root, did init 3, and the error box went away, giving me a prompt. I logged in as user, and tried startx. That got me a different error box, this time complaining of gnome itself. I hit the logout button in the box; it gave me my prompt back, plus a lot of messages, which appear to've been its response to startx. They begin with one saying that file /home/btth/.serverauth.1845 does not exist. Then come a lot of messages from the X server 1.11.1 Among other things, it's using /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and /usr/share/X11/ xorg.conf.d, getting the monitor size wrong (1024x768 instead of 1680x1050) and failing to find gnome-shell, metacity, nor gnome-panel. How do I remind it to boot to xfce instead of gnome?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, 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
