X Windows has disappeared on FC6 install.

[Steven Stromer]

Steven Stromer wrote:
> Installed FC6 yesterday with many headaches...
> 
> Finally, everything seemed to be working perfectly well, including 
> reboots. No errors.
> 
> Rebooted this morning with all services starting properly. Logged in on 
> splash screen, expecting to get to my gnome desktop; instead I get a 
> console screen reading:
> 
> Fedora Core release 6 (Zed)
> Kernel 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 on an i686
> 
> [hostmane] login: [blinking cursor]
> 
> 
> What the heck is going on?!? Where did X and gnome go? What can I do to 
> get my desktop back?
> 
> Thanks for any help!
> 

Thanks for the responses. I kind of found what was happening; it could 
be a bug in FC6, but I'm not sure. For some reason, the system defaulted 
to a safe mode session, despite the fact that there are no errors being 
reported in any logs, and drives, raid, etc. are all fine. I simply 
clicked on 'Sessions' on the login splash screen, and changed my default 
session to 'gnome'. gnome session started without a problem, and reboots 
go directly to gnome sessions now. However, it is strange that the 
default session type seemingly changed on its own. I've never had that 
happen, and I've been with FC since version 1.