More data: The problem went away for a while for no apparent reason. Hence, I haven't posted in a while. I turned off my computer when I went away for a weekend. I turned it on yesterday and today the problem is back. Any ideas? The problem is rather annoying. On Sun, 15 Jun 2008, Michael Hennebry wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2008, g wrote: > > > Michael Hennebry wrote: > > > I did an experiment. > > <snip> > > > Eventually something else blanked the screen and wanted my password. > > > > 2 good reasons for what i have 4 suggestions. > > > > 1a) if not already level 3, change '/etc/inittab' to *id:3:initdefault:*, reboot. > > 1b) in 'level 3'; > > > > >$ mv .kde .kde.old > > >$ startx > > > > if still, > > 2) add another user, login as, if continues, #3. > > I got around to trying 1 and 2, but no joy. > After exiting X, I did notice window manager complaints. > I kind of fuzzy on what they were. > Possibly they were the result of trying to run a gnome desktop without gnome. > IIRC I didn't clickon gnome during install. > I tried grepping /var/log/* , but didn't find the complaints. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called Hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called Software." -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list