On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:06:50AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: > On 04/11/2012 10:34 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote: > >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. > > That's true it is a fairly generic question, however, the OP did > state he'd tried to login with root and failed. Sounds to me like X > wasn't the only thing that is having issues. > > Although it could be the password he used. I noticed one time that > the password I was using simply wouldn't work on the initial install > of Fedora no matter how many times I installed it. It did work > however after changing it once I got it installed. To the OP: If you'r having trouble with the root password, and you're sure you typed it correctly -- you can do the following: 1. At the GRUB boot menu, hit Tab to edit the default entry. 2. Go down to the (long, multi-line) entry that starts with "linux" and add " 1" (that's a space and then a number 1) to the end. 3. Hit F10 to accept the changes for this session, and boot. 4. At the prompt, type the following command to reset the root password: passwd 5. You can then type the following command to complete normal startup: systemctl isolate default.target HTH. -- 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
