GNOME appears as a blank screen after login
I was running Fedora 3, and I got a bunch of pop-up error windows when I logged into GNOME with any account. I can no longer remember what they said.
I thought that upgrading to Fedora 4 may fix the problem, so I upgraded. Now, after I log in, all that I get is a blue screen. I can get in to a Fail Safe Terminal, but I do not know what to dot o rememdy the situation. Is there a way that I can install KDE or something else? All that I really want to do is backup my data files and then reformat and reinstall. |
Changing Window Manager
Did you install more than one Window Manager ( such as Gnome, KDE, Fluxbox ) when you set up Fedora Core 3? If not, do you have Yum installed and working? If you have more than one WM installed, you can use the command "/usr/bin/switchdesk" to switch default desktops. If that doesn't work, there is a command line - "startx gnome/kde/fluxbox" for starting XWindow server with the WM that you specify.
Also, if you had Linux configured to starting graphical mode ( aka Runlevel 5 ), you can change that by logging in as root and editing /etc/inittab. Change this line: id:5:initdefault: To read: id:3:initdefault: And reboot to come up to a console login. Hope this helped you out a bit. |
Re: Changing Window Manager
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Well, I tried mounting the drive in a Mandrake system and totally botched it. So, I then installed the drive in a Windows XP system and used a free utility that allowed me to recover my files from the linux partition. In case you are wondering, the utility is called R-Linux and is found at http://www.r-tt.com
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Sorry things did not go well, and thank you for posting the link for the free ext2 recovery utility. That reminds me, I was researching file systems yesterday to format a new RAID set I had built, and XFS,JFS,and ext3 have a lot of good features over ext3, so you might want to look at one of them. I wanted to use XFS ( great for big files ) but the RAID server is using kernel 2.4.22, which apparently doesn't support it. :(
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