On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 13:02 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 03/07/2012 12:14 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > When Fedora puts up the first login screen after system startup, > > the screen is black except for the login area which shows the names > > of the users who might want to log in, and a message partly blocked > > by the login area which says: > > > > A problem h[<login area>]dministrator. > > > > The bar at the top of the screen showing the date at the center and > > three controls at the right is missing. > > > > There is (obviously) some problem that I should attend to, but it's > > not clear what it is. > > > It sounds like the selected theme has a problem. But we would need > to know the display manager you are using, (kdm, gdm, or xdm) before > giving you the steps to fix it. The error message probably shows up > in the logs in /var/log or /var/log/(display manager) A very good suggestion, particularly since the problem arose after installing a new video card, namely: nVidia Corporation GT218 [GeForce 8400 GS] (rev a2) In the process of installing the card the BIOS lost all its settings; I set it up again, but may not have got things exactly right. (I change BIOS settings about once every 3 years.) Unfortunately a search of /var/log as root: # find -type f | xargs fgrep Administrator returns nothing. It looks like the display manager is gdm, since /var/log/gdm exists and no other /var/log/*dm does. This may be a problem, since I use KDE. jon -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
