Start up Problems

Alex Janssen alex at ourwoods.org
Mon Apr 28 03:27:36 UTC 2008


jlsmith722 at comcast.net said the following on 04/26/2008 07:35 PM:
> Hello
> I am an absolute newbie to Linux. The ability to make a dual boot system
> with Winxp convinced me to give hardy heron a try.
>
> The installation went well until the log-in screen came up.
> In short I cannot log-in to the default setting (run xclient scripts). I
> can log into fail-safe Gnome, or fail-safe terminal.
>
> Anyone have any ideas???
>   
If it were me, I'd reinstall the system.  Did you run md5sum on the iso 
image and check against the published checksum before burning and run 
the CD self checker before installing to make sure you had good images?  
An install can seem to go ok with a bad image, but run flakey.

Alex

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