On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:34:57AM -0400, Terry Polzin wrote: > On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 09:29 -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > > On 04/11/2012 09:08 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote: > > > Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17 looking for when it > > > boots up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried has > > > failed. Please help. > > > -- > > > Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work. > > > > > > > > > > I'm assuming you are using the latest RC of F17? Sounds to me like you > > didn't name the system you installed it on, so it defaulted to > > 'localhost'. When you installed, did it not ask to add a new user > > account? > > > > Have you tried logging in with root? > > > > > > -- > > > > Mark Haney > > Software Developer/Consultant > > AB Emblem > > markh@xxxxxxxxxxxx > > Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.0-8.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux > > GUI login? Echo other comment about setting up a mortal user during > install or first boot. Have you tried to login an root via CLI? > (ctrl-alt-f2) > > But really questions for F17 should be directed at the test list. F17 > isn't prime time yet. Looking past the number '17' in the question -- this is a very general question common to all Fedora releases. When you see "localhost login:" on the screen, you either don't have a graphical environment installed, or the graphical X Window System failed to start. If that happened, it's likely that firstboot, the graphical helper that lets you set up a user account, didn't run, so you may not be able to log in as a standard user. You can still login at this prompt with your 'root' account and password. From that point, you can look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what happened that caused your X Window System to fail. If you want to post that for people here to look at and offer advice, please *don't* attach the file to your email. It will probably be too big and your message won't come through. Instead, post it somewhere like http://fpaste.org and send a link to your paste here. -- Paul W. Frields http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 http://redhat.com/ - - - - http://pfrields.fedorapeople.org/ The open source story continues to grow: http://opensource.com -- 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
