ilia_kr Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Hi there. I've just installed a corrupted gdm theme, so i can't login any more using gui. Please help me login somehow! I use Fedora Core 4. Thanks. moved from kernel forum by mystified Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Press alt+ctrl+F1 in order to drop to the command line. From there start the GUI-desktop directly with startx Then go to system -> administration -> display manager and reconfigure it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted April 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 startx doesn't help, because the gui login screen shows up, but all buttons and text boxes are locked. That means that X is up. I tried what you said but the terminal said that there is already one X session running... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Press alt+ctrl+F2 to F6, login as root and edit /etc/inittab to login at runlevel 3 (instead of 5). Now you will be able to repair your nonfunctioning gdm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 You'll need to shut it down. startx, when done under a user, should bypass the login screen. To shut down X you'll need to do this as root: /etc/init.d/gdm stop or it might be slightly different in fedora...you might get away with: service gdm stop Another option would be to start a new X server on a different "screen" so you don't have to worry about the current one: startx -- :1 Then going back to the first with CTRL+ALT+F7 and using CTRL+ALT+BKSP should force it to restart with a non-corrupt theme (after you change it as arctic stated). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 11, 2007 Report Share Posted April 11, 2007 Sorry, I forgot to mention that you have to go into init 3 mode. You don't have to do that however by editing the inittab file. A simple "init 3" as root should be enough. After that, startx should work. (at least it does on my fc6 box and my RHEL clone) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 If it still doesn't work when using startx then it will tell why it won't start. Carefully read the resulting screen text and it will have the details. I would also select fail safe at bootup and try going in from there. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 12, 2007 Report Share Posted April 12, 2007 Hehehe..., John, Fedora does not have a "failsafe" boot-option. :) For that you have to edit the grub entry and add to the boot-line which init you want to start, e.g. by adding a "3" at the end of the kernel line for init 3 mode. Different distros, different approaches. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AussieJohn Posted April 13, 2007 Report Share Posted April 13, 2007 Okey doke. Cheers. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilia_kr Posted April 14, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2007 Unfortunately, my hard-drive just died... So my linux pc isn't functional for a while :( I think its about time to buy the whole new package. Anyway, thanks for your help ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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