Gnome shows blank screen upon logging out

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Sat Nov 26 17:12:38 UTC 2005


Am Sa, den 26.11.2005 schrieb Ong Chin Kiat um 13:47:

> Hello all. I recently installed FC4 (i386) on my Dell Dimension 2350 
> dedsktop. It runs Gnome as the window manager. During the first-run 
> configuration, I selected my screen resolution and finished the post-install 
> configuration. However, the screen just turned blank. It would not respond, 
> although I could SSH into the desktop.
> 
> Subsequently, I changed the /etc/inittab file to boot into runlevel 3, as a 
> precaution. Logging in locally worked fine. So I ran 'startx'. Everything 
> was fine and dandy, until I logged out, upon which the screen turned blank 
> and turned non-responsive. However, as previously mentioned, I could still 
> SSH into the server.

> Chink

Update your FC4 with the latest x11-xorg packages at least.

Alexander


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