On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Dylan Knight Rogers wrote:

>     You should try to login in via a "text window".  Use ctrl-alt-f2 to switch
>     to a text window and login in there.  This will bypass GNOME completely.
>
> This is sometimes problematic, as certain daemons may print errors to
> the generic tty screen in both bash and zsh (even within a 'screen'
> session), which obfuscates what you're typing.

These errors normally go to tty1 which is f1 that is why I suggested he go 
to f2.

-Connie Sieh
>
> Your idea is fine, but I think he should move into the failsafe
> terminal, instead, which does not require a full GNOME, only gdm, to
> access.
>
> On 11/21/07, Connie Sieh <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>
>>> Pedro Ferreira wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I would really appreciate some help here. I am a starter at linux and I
>>>> installed SL 4.5 on my pc. After some weeks it worked fine (besides I
>>>> haven't registered it on redhat.com),
>>>
>>> There is no need to register at redhat.com if you are runing Scientific
>>> Linux.  Except for their source code, which anyone can get from their
>>> ftp site, they are not associated with Scientific Linux in any way.
>>
>> And you should not be able to register it at redhat.com because you do not
>> have a redhat subscription.
>>
>>>
>>>> and yesterday  when I tryed to log
>>>> in GNOME a message appeader saying that my session lasted less than 10
>>>> seconds and one of 2 things should be happening: or I am out of disk
>>>> space (which I am NOT), or something about saving my last session. The
>>>> result is that I can't log in, only on security mode (terminal only),
>>>> but as long as I don't know what to do, I can't fix it.
>>>> Does anybody know what is happenning?
>>>
>>> It sounds like you cannot log into your home area for some reason.  What
>>> that reason is ... we'll have to figure out.
>>>
>>> Is your home area on a network disk of some type?  Or is it on the disk
>>> in your computer?
>>>
>>> If it is on your computer, is your home area on it's own partition?
>>
>> You should try to login in via a "text window".  Use ctrl-alt-f2 to switch
>> to a text window and login in there.  This will bypass GNOME completely.
>>
>> -Connie Sieh
>>>
>>> Troy
>>>
>>>
>>
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