x display not opening

linuxsikandar · 03-04-2008, 01:54 AM

Hi All,

I logged off from normal user as i want to log in as root.

The error it gives is as follows

The greeter program appear to be crashing. I will attempt to use a different one.

It allowing me to login to terminal but not to X window.

Regards

LinuxSikadar

immortaltechnique · 03-04-2008, 04:27 AM

Try this login via one of the ttys and do the following

PHP Code:



rm -Rf /tmp/.X0-log

Then type at the command line

PHP Code:



startx

.

That should get you up and running. This happens in Fedora 7 and i dunno whether the bug has been fixed.

Cheers