On Friday 11 July 2008 09:42, Anne Wilson wrote: > This morning my F9 box gets to the login screen, then I get a white box on > a black background. The white box disappears and I'm left with a black > screen. It seems that things carry on in the background, as, after a while, > I get the chimes that signal that the system is ready to go. > > I've checked that it isn't the kernel that's the problem - it happens on > both kernels. The session menu at login doesn't show any other dm, so I > thought I must have forgotten to install an extra one. I went into > failsafe mode and first tried for updates, to be told that there are none. > I then tried to install gnome-desktop, figuring that it would pick up the > necessaries from there. It says that gnome-desktop is already installed. > > At this point I'm at a loss to know what's next. Advice? > /var/log/messages tells me that pulseaudio failed X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly (presumably the important one) restorecond: Will not restore a file with more than one hard link (/etc/resolv.conf) Invalid argument /etc/resolv.conf contains the IP addresses of my ISP's two nameservers. There's no clue as to why the X server terminated. System-config-display appears to be using correct settings. Anne -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list