screen goes black

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Paula J. Lindsay wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I have a box running fedora core 8.  When this user logs into his
> machine using kde, he ends up just getting a solid black screen.
> I had him log into the machine using gnome, and he ended up with a solid
> blue screen.  It sounds to me like his setting are
> corrupt or something to that effect.  I know this isn't a fedora mailing
> list, but I am really desperate to find a cure for this
> poor user.  He did try to log on to another machine with the same results.

Aha! You say he logs into these several machines: how's he logging on? If he's
going from his own system, I'd immediately guess that the settings on his
machine are bad.

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