Beartooth wrote:
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.)
Shrug.
mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf to backup.
setup
x window setup
perhaps that will get you a fresh as detected config.
What has changed since it last worked ?
different screen ?
screen plugged in a different video output ?
fedora updates ?
DaveT.
