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.
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