Beartooth wrote on Sunday 01 July 2007:
Instead of the usual login screen, I get a gray window without the usual bar on top, which first says it is scanning the local network, and then that "No serving hosts were found."
I make a guess: maybe you set your graphical login manager to make a remote login? I know similar windows from KDM. Search for a option to make a local login.
If I type in 127.0.0.1, or localhost, or localdomain, or its 192.168.x.y, or lo, or localhost.localdomain, or localhost@localdomain, and try to add it, I get a new box with a "do not enter" symbol and the title "Did not receive response from server," below which is a paragraph saying it didn't get it in 3 seconds, and adding "Perhaps the host is not turned on, or is not willing to support a login session right now. Please try again later."
Is does not seem right for me to enter a server name in order to login locally.
Another question: can you login on local console? This ugly ;-) textual thing you can reach with Ctrl-Alt-F1 (usually Ctrl-Alt-F7 brings you back to the graphical console). If you can, there is nothing wrong with your account.