Suddenly, on a machine which has been running F7 since F7 came out, I can no longer log in. Instead of the usual login screen, I get a gray window without the usual bar on top, which first says it is scanning the local network, and then that "No serving hosts were found." If I type in 127.0.0.1, or localhost, or localdomain, or its 192.168.x.y, or lo, or localhost.localdomain, or localhost@localdomain, and try to add it, I get a new box with a "do not enter" symbol and the title "Did not receive response from server," below which is a paragraph saying it didn't get it in 3 seconds, and adding "Perhaps the host is not turned on, or is not willing to support a login session right now. Please try again later." Or if not that box, one (particularly for lo) suggesting that I might have mistyped it. If I ssh into it from another machine behind the same router, however, it accepts that; and /sbin/ifconfig confirms its own 192.168.x.y, its proper MACs (one for eth0 and one for eth1), and the 192.168.x.y for the machine I'm working from. If I look at "cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf" I see nothing obviously strange except that there are an awful lot of modes (twelve of them) in Section "Screen" -- but the first one, 1280x1024, is correct for my monitor, which another section correctly identifies an an lcd. If I become root and ssh into the problem machine, it lets me; but when I try telling it startx, it claims X is already running. If, as it suggests, I remove /tmp/.X0-lock, and try startx again, I get several screenfuls of messages, which I can't even scroll back to -- and startx|less does the same! What have I fouled up so royally this time, and what (if possible, short of reinstalling F7) can I do about it? (I know perfectly well how helpless I am without a GUI; it doesn't have to rub my nose in it.) -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
