On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:06:50AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
On 04/11/2012 10:34 AM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
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.
That's true it is a fairly generic question, however, the OP did state he'd tried to login with root and failed. Sounds to me like X wasn't the only thing that is having issues.
Although it could be the password he used. I noticed one time that the password I was using simply wouldn't work on the initial install of Fedora no matter how many times I installed it. It did work however after changing it once I got it installed.
To the OP: If you'r having trouble with the root password, and you're sure you typed it correctly -- you can do the following:
1. At the GRUB boot menu, hit Tab to edit the default entry. 2. Go down to the (long, multi-line) entry that starts with "linux" and add " 1" (that's a space and then a number 1) to the end. 3. Hit F10 to accept the changes for this session, and boot. 4. At the prompt, type the following command to reset the root password: passwd 5. You can then type the following command to complete normal startup: systemctl isolate default.target
HTH.