Re: [Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem

2009-02-09 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Sahasranaman MS wrote: I am running Fedora 9, and it doesn't appear to have a service called xfs, so I'm assuming it is not present in the recent versions. Correct. Would it be wise to find out the names of these processes and starting them before I start gdm from the console? An easier

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem

2009-02-09 Thread Roshan George
On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 11:56 +0530, Sahasranaman MS wrote: > # gdm > > X does start, and it shows the graphical login screen and I am able to > login. But after logging, the panels and processes that show icons on the > desktop and probably others that display windows are not starting. So I have >

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem

2009-02-09 Thread kesavan (K7)
uary, 2009 11:56:48 AM Subject: Re: [Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > If xfs is running, login as root and try running system-config-display > --reconfigure. > > I am running Fedora 9, and it doesn't appear to have a service called

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem

2009-02-08 Thread Sahasranaman MS
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 3:28 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > If xfs is running, login as root and try running system-config-display > --reconfigure. > > I am running Fedora 9, and it doesn't appear to have a service called xfs, so I'm assuming it is not present in the recent versions. As for system-

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem

2009-02-07 Thread Arun Khan
On Saturday 07 Feb 2009, Sahasranaman MS wrote: > And I can't risk playing with this machine because it has a lot of > data, a database engine and webserver running. That's why I'm trying > to see if someone has a readymade solution for this :| Did you change any hardware on the system especially

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem

2009-02-07 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Sahasranaman MS wrote: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: Is there anything suggestive in /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log? If not, try moving the ~/.kde or ~/.kde4 or ~/.gnome2 directory depending on what you use. Does that help anyhow? Thanks for the reply, Mehul.

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem

2009-02-07 Thread Sahasranaman MS
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Mehul Ved wrote: > Is there anything suggestive in /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log? > If not, try moving the ~/.kde or ~/.kde4 or ~/.gnome2 directory > depending on what you use. Does that help anyhow? > Thanks for the reply, Mehul. I tried renaming ~/.

Re: [Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem

2009-02-06 Thread Mehul Ved
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Sahasranaman MS wrote: > Hello. > > I have a fedora webserver running here. I had to restart it to change the > UPS, and when I restarted, the GUI stopped working. It was asking for login > details in text mode. I logged in as root and typed 'gdm'. Then the > graphi

[Ilugc] Fedora GUI problem

2009-02-05 Thread Sahasranaman MS
Hello. I have a fedora webserver running here. I had to restart it to change the UPS, and when I restarted, the GUI stopped working. It was asking for login details in text mode. I logged in as root and typed 'gdm'. Then the graphical login screen showed up. i logged in there too, but after that,