Fedora 9 GUI desktop vanished

owenm · 03-18-2009, 06:16 PM

I have a fedora core 9 install and all of a sudden it boots to a prompt to log in, no more desktop. Any suggestions?

Tks,
Owen.

michaelk · 03-18-2009, 09:09 PM

Did you change anything recently?
What happens when you login and then run the command startx?

Post the make/model of your laptop.

owenm · 03-19-2009, 03:29 PM

I can login as root but get the follwoing error messages when i run startx

Fatal server error: no screens found
giving up
xinit: connection refused(errno 111): unable to connect to server
xinit: no such process(errno 3): server error.

I don't recall changing anything.

custangro · 03-19-2009, 03:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by owenm

I can login as root but get the follwoing error messages when i run startx

Fatal server error: no screens found
giving up
xinit: connection refused(errno 111): unable to connect to server
xinit: no such process(errno 3): server error.

I don't recall changing anything.

You can try reconfiguring X...

Code:

root@fedora# system-config-display

Also you could post some X logs under /var/log/Xorg.log

-C

asifbasha · 03-23-2009, 10:32 PM

hai ,

I had the same problem with my Fedora 9 GUI desktop..what i did is that i made the taskbar(panel bar) in the desktop is TRANSPARENT with GNOME desktop environment properties..

so to overcome with this problem remove the transparency in the taskbar(panel bar) in the GNOME desktop evironment and login another time......

John VV · 03-23-2009, 10:51 PM

owenm it sounds like you did an update and installed a new kernel and did not install the graphics driver for your card

What is your 3d card ( ati,nvidia) ?
or is it a built in chipset on the mobo ?
What driver did you install ?
Was it from the manufactures web site ( ATI catalyst -ati-driver-installer-???.run or nvidia.run )
or was it a kmod.rpm ?

what was the last updates , they are listed in " /var/log/yum.log"

Code:

 
tail -50 /var/log/yum.log