Question

can not login to Fedora 11: via GNOME - can't even get to CLI.

Asked by: epifanio67

Hello Experts,

Freaking out here... GNOME is not letting me login to Fedora 11 and I have a tone of data there....
Problem:
1. Power up machine
2. get GNOME login screen along with Install Problem msg:
         Install Problem!
         The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact    your computer administrator
3. try to login but get a black screen - keys don't work..

Please help... freaking out...

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2009-10-27 at 09:32:39ID24847837
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Fedora Linux

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Answers

 

by: savonePosted on 2009-10-27 at 09:35:57ID: 25674461

 

by: themrrobertPosted on 2009-10-27 at 09:48:21ID: 25674609

Right, by editing the boot entry, usually by selecting your distro and pressing E (grub) or TAB (lilo) you can edit the paramaters. add "single" (no quotes) to the end of the kernel line, hit {RETURN} to launch.

When you get to the shell, run
(replace /dev/sda1 with your primary disk partition. # fdisk -l    for a list.
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/sda1

Now you have full read/write access. You can backup your data, and use yum to uninstall and reinstall gnome and see if that fixes the problem. also try a yum repair if available.

 

by: epifanio67Posted on 2009-10-27 at 10:09:16ID: 25674866

thk u experts..

the problem is that I can't even get to the terminal...

Pls see the attached screen shot. After I type username and password, I get a black screen.. no way to access a terminal...

Regards,

 

by: savonePosted on 2009-10-27 at 10:12:01ID: 25674894

The bootloader (grub) loads before gnome does, so you will have to follow the directions in the link I provided.  It will work. :)

 

by: themrrobertPosted on 2009-10-27 at 10:22:26ID: 25675004

I was talking about modifying the grub boot commands. This happens long before Linux loads.

 

by: epifanio67Posted on 2009-10-27 at 10:52:07ID: 25675365

thk u experts,

But where do you go to do this?

I am trying to follow the instructions provided in the link above. please see my comments following //

"Booting Single-User Mode

You may be able to boot single-user mode directly. If your system boots, but does not allow you to log in when it has completed booting, try single-user mode.

If you are using GRUB, use the following steps to boot into single-user mode:
// how do I know if I am using GRUB?

   1. If you have a GRUB password configured, type p and enter the password.
         // where do I type this p and password? I can't access boot file/config....

If you are using LILO, specify one of these options at the LILO boot prompt (if you are using the graphical LILO, you must press [Ctrl]-[x] to exit the graphical screen and go to the boot: prompt):

// I have been pressing Ctrl-x but I still can not access boot files.... I keep getting the gnome login screen...

Thk u so much for your patience... losing my mind here..

 

by: savonePosted on 2009-10-27 at 11:05:39ID: 25675506

Fedora 11 uses grub by default and be default there is NO grub password set unless you set one.

When you boot the first thing (after a bios splash screen) is the grub bootloader.  When you see some white text hit the space bar or any key to stop grub and it will give you some boot options.  Then you can follow the directions above. :)

 

by: epifanio67Posted on 2009-10-27 at 15:49:13ID: 31646546

thk u so much..... you guys are truly experts...

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