F8 system crashed

[Craig White]

On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 09:12 -0700, Barry Yu wrote:
> During start up noticed "avahi daemon     Failed", and
> then "Greeter appears to be crashing. Attempting to
> use a different one", this Greeter keeps attempting to
> do the same but never can start the log in.
> Need help to fix it if can avoid fresh installation.
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go to virtual console...
<Control><Alt><F1>
login as root and then type command...
telinit 3 # switch to runlevel 3
echo "DISPLAYMANAGER=KDE" >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop
# this will change it from gdm greeter to kdm greeter
telinit 5 # switch back to runlevel 5

at this point, you should be able to login and do whatever you need to
do.

If you want to switch back to gdm instead of kdm, you will have to
figure out what broke gdm

Craig