White Screen After Reboot (Fedora 8)

[Marwan Aziz]

Good Morning Tod,

Thanx for the quick reply. I did the 'CTRL-ALT-F1' thing and I got the login
screen. I then looked at the files that you suggested. The only warning I saw
was in the messages file:

gdm-simple-greeter[2938]: WARNING: Unable to load image: Couldn't recognize the
image file format for file '/usr/share/backgrounds/infinity/infinity.xml'

I am not sure where it is getting this value from. On a side note, how do I
mount my USB drive so I can copy the files you mentioned? 

Thanx for your help

- Marwan

Quoting Tod Merley <todbot88 at gmail.com>:

> On Dec 4, 2007 6:44 PM, Marwan Aziz <marwan at wanmar.com> wrote:
> > Hi There,
> >
> > I just rebooted my Fedora 8 desktop and after going through the startup
> screen
> > (which shows all of the details of the startup) instead of getting to the
> login
> > screen, I get a white screen and the only visible thing is the mouse
> pointer.
> > Here are the details of my machine:
> > - HP Pavilion a1654n
> > - Intel Viiv Core 2 Duo E6300
> > - Nvidia GEforce 7500LE
> > - Fedora 8 (2.6.23.1-49.fc8)
> >
> > I do not know what to do to fix this. Please help.
> >
> > Thanx.
> >
> > - Marwan
> >
> >
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> Hi Marwan Aziz!
> 
> I would like to think so.
> 
> Lets try some things:
> 
> 1. Do a "ctl+alt+F1" and see if it brings up a tty login screen.  If
> so, log in as root - go to /var/log and at least look at Xorg.0.log,
> dmesg, and messages.  If you can, copy the files to a flash drive or
> other removable media.
> 
> 2. If the "ctl+alt+F1" does not work do the above from a live CD.
> 
> 3. Examine the files for clues.  You are looking for warnings and errors.
> 
> 4. Google the errors along with hardware information (video card -
> mother board (chipsets)).
> 
> 5. If no errors there check the disk file system integrity (man fsck).
>  It is probably not wise to repair any errors found at this time.
> 
> Please let us know what you find.
> 
> Tod
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