On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:34:57AM -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 09:29 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
On 04/11/2012 09:08 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17 looking for when it boots up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried has failed. Please help. -- Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
I'm assuming you are using the latest RC of F17? Sounds to me like you didn't name the system you installed it on, so it defaulted to 'localhost'. When you installed, did it not ask to add a new user account?
Have you tried logging in with root?
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Mark Haney Software Developer/Consultant AB Emblem markh@abemblem.com Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.0-8.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux
GUI login? Echo other comment about setting up a mortal user during install or first boot. Have you tried to login an root via CLI? (ctrl-alt-f2)
But really questions for F17 should be directed at the test list. F17 isn't prime time yet.
Looking past the number '17' in the question -- this is a very general question common to all Fedora releases. When you see "localhost login:" on the screen, you either don't have a graphical environment installed, or the graphical X Window System failed to start. If that happened, it's likely that firstboot, the graphical helper that lets you set up a user account, didn't run, so you may not be able to log in as a standard user.
You can still login at this prompt with your 'root' account and password. From that point, you can look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see what happened that caused your X Window System to fail. If you want to post that for people here to look at and offer advice, please *don't* attach the file to your email. It will probably be too big and your message won't come through. Instead, post it somewhere like http://fpaste.org and send a link to your paste here.