Beartooth <beartooth <at> comcast.net> writes: > Nope, alas! I get a picture of a sad face on a screen, telling me > "Oh no, something has gone wrong." It says to log in again, so I tried. > Three times. No joy. Nor can either of the other users on the login > screen (whose passwords I have) get even that far. Both get messages > about a failure to update a .ICEauthority file.
I don't know what this file is, but it's in your home directory (~/.ICEauthority) and googling for ".ICEauthority" turns up a lot of references to what sounds like your error. > Of course, root can't log in either; and Ctrl-Alt-Delete does > only a logout, not a reboot. I hit the reset button. Still no joy. > > > If you didn't have the terminal, the bug > > reports indicate how to fix things in general by going to a VT and > > deleting a file. In the latter case, you'd still have to run g-s-p to > > disable session saving afterwards, otherwise the same thing would happen > > again on the next login. > > I saw talk of that in one of the bugzilla discussions, and > refrained from pointing our there that I haven't the foggiest notion of > what is meant by going to Virginia Tech (what VT stands for around here), > nor how to do it electronically. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_console Normally in Fedora, the GUI is on Alt-F1 and you can get to a text console with Ctrl-Alt-F2, Ctrl-Alt-F3, etc. There is a bug (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503267) where X can end up on something like F7 instead of F1, so if you don't find the GUI working on F1, try the others. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
