On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 18:07 -0700, Paul Murtaugh wrote: > I turned off the rhgb option and can now see all of the > services starting up, without any problems. I then briefly > see a text login prompt (which apparently isn't functional), > followed by a dark screen with hourglass, when normally I'd > get the graphical login screen. My only option at this > point is to turn off the computer. > > Help?! > > Thanks > -Paul > > On 4/13/05, Paul Murtaugh <murtaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It would get to the 'Welcome to Fedora' screen, and > > then go blank with the hourglass -- as you usually see > > before the various services get started. But it would go > > no further; every so often the screen would refresh, but > > the blank screen with hourglass would re-appear, ad > > infinitum. It doesn't get to the screen with the progress > > bar and 'Show details' option, so I have no idea how to > > begin debugging this problem. > > Turn off the rhgb kernel option. > Some details about the hardware might help get some resolution to the problem. In the mean time: Try booting to runlevel 3, by appending a 3 to the end of the kernel command line in grub. The start up process will stop at the text login. Login as root and run startx, hopefully one of the many messages that appear may point to some error. It might help to pipe the startx output to a file. Is this an integrated graphics adapter. If so, make sure the memory you (and/or X) think is allocated to it really is. Bob...
