<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> NoOp wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:g77so3$mor$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 08/03/2008 05:02 PM, Jerry Alber wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">NoOp, I tried replacing the keyboard, using the wireless keyboard but nothing worked. I tried doing an install from the "official" CD from Canonical using Safe Graphic Mode and clicking on the install folder on the screen, but the install did not include Grub. So, I went back to the Alternate CD and did an install from there (all of the installs are clean, meaning that I re-format the partition) and it seemed to go fine. I entered a username and a password and when I rebooted the system and entered the username and password it looked as if it were going to do something. It did - it went back to the loginin screen with no errors. The next time, I entered a wrong password just to see what it would do, and I got an error right away. When mounting the partition from Fedora 8, is there someplace that I can check to see what it is doing, or rather, not doing with the username, password? If I check /var/log what log/s should I look at and what should I be looking for? I also have a thread in Launchpad, and it seems as though I am not the only person having this problem. So far, there were no solutions and some people have become so disgusted that they have given up. Let me know if you can think of what I should be looking for in order to try and solve this "latest" problem. Thanks, Jerry </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> That's just odd... Maybe Leonard has a good point; at the login window, can you select "Options" (lower left corner) and then select "Select Session", then "Failsafe GNOME" mode. Let's see if it's flipping back because xserver is crashing. Before you do that however; do Ctrl-Alt-F1 and see if you get a tty login, see if you can login that way. If you can login from tty mode then log back out ('exit') and return to the login screen (Ctrl-Alt-F7) and login using Failsafe GNOME. As for checking the logs from FC; check /var/crash and see if there is something in there, as well as /var/log/Xorg.0.log. </pre> </blockquote> NoOp, Thanks for your very quick reply! I checked /var/crash and there was nothing there. I also checked /var/log/xorg.0.log. It was there and very long but I am not sure exactly what I should be looking for. I can get in by using "Failsafe GNOME". I also used Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get into that TTY. I logged in and then typed "startx". It said "Server is already active for display 0. If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and try again. I removed the lock and did startx. It started and I got the regular GUI screen with the 2 panels - top and bottom. It seems to work as it should unless I go back to Ctrl-Alt-F1 which takes me to that TTY screen, but when I go to Ctrl-Alt-F7 which should take me back to the GUI I just left, I get the login screen instead. If I log in, it goes no where and I just sit there with an orange screen. Interesting. Jerry </body> </html>