On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 23:28 -0400, fred smith wrote: > here's what it means: I get the GUI login prompt, enter username, > password, it churns a bit, gives the login sound, screen goes black > while the animated mouse pointer goes round and round. after a little > bit it goes blue and I get the login dialog again. I've had that, in the past, when I've not had a "sticky" bit set on the /tmp permissions. [tim@suspishus ~]$ ll -Zd /tmp drwxrwxrwt. root root system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0 /tmp [tim@suspishus ~]$ ll -d /tmp/ drwxrwxrwt. 66 root root 4096 2009-09-12 21:28 /tmp/ > so what do I do now? Switch to another console, e.g. CTRL+ALT+F3, and try logging in again in the text environment. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines