FC3 drops out to login for no reason

ShamitSoneji · 12-09-2004, 05:43 AM

I was sitting here woking away as per usual, when for no reason my machine dropped out to the login screen!

Has anyone else experienced this?!

rhoekstra · 12-09-2004, 07:20 AM

Graphically or textually?

I haven't had this experience though..

Using gnome? KDE?

ShamitSoneji · 12-09-2004, 07:45 AM

It drops to the graphical login screen. I'm using KDE, althought I did install gnome to try it out a while ago. This is the first and only time its happened.

The funny thing is, just before it dropped, another screen flashed up momentarily which seemed to look like a gnome session (the background at least was the one I had in gnome anyway).

overlord73 · 12-09-2004, 07:58 AM

with the default installation on an amd duron 1200 + gigabyte board (?) i have the phenomenon that logout from KDE as root everything is ok, but as a user the screen turns black and nothing happens.no chance to do anything. network is also down.

haven´t tried if this prob exists with the current X11-updates.

but to your problem...sorry..no idea

rhoekstra · 12-09-2004, 08:02 AM

It looks like an X crash... but I can't tell... Perhaps your log files (/var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg*) tell more?

ShamitSoneji · 12-09-2004, 08:07 AM

I cant see anything, but I just applied the X updates, so hopefully it wont happen again. Thanks for the suggestions.

rhoekstra · 12-09-2004, 08:09 AM

You're welcome.. pity I was unable to resolve the problem...

Good luck.