On 11/15/2011 07:50 PM, Jim Cromie wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Joe Zeff<joe@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 11/15/2011 06:30 PM, Jim Cromie wrote: >>> "somethings gone wrong, ..... contact administator" >> >> There's only one way to deal with programmers who think that's an >> appropriate error message: give their GPS coordinates to OADS >> (http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/OADS/anvil_chorus.html). >> > > I dont think Id like complainers ringing my doorbell. > I take it you didn't follow the link. After you've had a few anvils dropped on you from orbit, having your doorbell rung is the last thing you'd be worrying about. >> Grovelling through your logs, however, reveals a large number of >> warnings about programs that shouldn't be run as root. Were you trying >> to log into the GUI as root? It's not exactly the best of ideas, and >> Fedora usually disables root logins by default. If so, have you tried >> logging in as a non-root user? >> -- > > No, gui login as regular user. reboot was needed to get to text prompt. > > at that point, logs in /var/log/messages were cluttered > with the following runlevel 3 boot. OK, just checking because it might have been a factor. -- 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
