One F7 machine not finding itself

[Adalbert Prokop]

Beartooth wrote on Sunday 01 July 2007:

> Instead of the usual login screen, I get a gray window without the
> usual bar on top, which first says it is scanning the local network,
> and then that "No serving hosts were found."

I make a guess: maybe you set your graphical login manager to make a 
remote login? I know similar windows from KDM. Search for a option to 
make a local login.

> If I type in 127.0.0.1, or localhost, or localdomain, or its
> 192.168.x.y, or  lo, or localhost.localdomain, or
> localhost at localdomain, and try to add it, I get a new box with a "do
> not enter" symbol and the title "Did not receive response from server,"
> below which is a paragraph saying it didn't get it in 3 seconds, and
> adding "Perhaps the host is not turned on, or is not willing to support
> a login session right now. Please try again later."

Is does not seem right for me to enter a server name in order to login 
locally.

Another question: can you login on local console? This ugly ;-) textual 
thing you can reach with Ctrl-Alt-F1 (usually Ctrl-Alt-F7 brings you back 
to the graphical console). If you can, there is nothing wrong with your 
account.

-- 
bye,
Adalbert

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