On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 06:36 +0530, Freak Trick wrote: > I am Fairly comfortable with CLI. Just that I do not know how to skip > Gnome and log directly into CLI. I tried to edit the systemd to > multi-user target by booting from the live CD and accessing the hard > drive where the file is stored, but things did not work out and still > it is Gnome. If I can reach CLI, I can try removing a couple of > packages I have installed and see if they are the culprits or as you > mention try desktop installation. > > > Is there a way I can skip Gnome and go directly into CLI (barring > systemd). Win 98 had a wonderful feature that allowed direct entry > into CLI by pressing F8 at boot and selecting appropriate option. > Sadly neither XP nor Fedora seems to provide such an option. > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > From: Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> > To: Freak Trick <trickfr...@ymail.com>; Community support for Fedora > users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> > Sent: Wednesday, 18 January 2012 2:09 AM > Subject: Re: Only desktop wallpaper after login F15 > > > On 01/17/2012 08:59 AM, Freak Trick wrote: > > I formatted and reinstalled. Again it worked fine the first time. > But > > next boot gave the same problem. Moreover without being able to > access > > the desktop, I am short of ideas to do anything to resolve the > problem. > > > > Any workarounds? > > I'm not sure what's going on, but if it happened twice, the third > time's not likely to be any better. However, I take it you're not > comfortable enough with a CLI to try to work out what's going on that > way. Why not try installing at least one other DE, such as KDE or > XFCE along with Gnome? Then, when (not if) it happens again, you can > try your secondary DE and have a chance to do some forensics, such as > groveling through /var/log/Xorg.0.log. ---- <Control><Alt><F3>
login as root <Alt><F2> will likely bring you back to GUI (though possibly F1, F3, F4, F6, F7) Craig -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
