Strange message at startup

2012-03-07 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
When Fedora puts up the first login screen after system startup, the screen is black except for the login area which shows the names of the users who might want to log in, and a message partly blocked by the login area which says: A problem h[]dministrator. The bar at the top of the scree

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-07 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2012 12:14 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > When Fedora puts up the first login screen after system startup, the screen is black except for the login area which shows the names of the users who might want to log in, and a message partly blocked

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-07 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 13:02 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 03/07/2012 12:14 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > When Fedora puts up the first login screen after system startup, > > the screen is black except for the login area which shows the names > > of the users who might want to log in, and

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-07 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 12:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Unfortunately a search of /var/log as root: > # find -type f | xargs fgrep Administrator > returns nothing. It looks like the display manager is gdm, since > /var/log/gdm exists and no other /var/log/*dm does. This may be a > pr

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 12:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > Unfortunately a search of /var/log as root: > > # find -type f | xargs fgrep Administrator > > returns nothing. It looks like the display manager is gdm, since >

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread suvayu ali
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 17:31, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > It is even easier. After you put in your login name there is a window on > the screen where you can chose thew window manager to boot. Actually that is the way to switch desktop environments, not display managers. A display manager is the int

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 12:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > Unfortunately a search of /var/log as root: > > > # find -type f | xargs fgrep Administrator > > > re

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:15 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 10:31 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 19:46 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 12:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > > > Unfortunately a search of /var/log as

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/08/2012 05:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > You are right but changing the desktop environment is what OP seems to want to do. No - he wants to change the Display Manager, because he is getting a blank background and an error message from the displ

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-08 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 17:04 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > No, that's for changing the desktop environment. The window manager > is > > different. > > > > poc > > > > You are right but changing the desktop environment is what OP seems to > want to do. He's already using KDE. He suspects he has

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:07 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 03/08/2012 05:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > You are right but changing the desktop environment is what OP seems > to want to do. > No - he wants to change the Display Manager, because he is getting a > blank background and an erro

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread suvayu ali
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:14, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > The suggestion that the system is missing some "thyme" files is > interesting.  What is "thyme"?  There doesn't seem to be any rpm with > that name; the only rpm containing files of the form '*/thyme*' is > tuxpaint-stamps, which doesn't see

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Aaron Konstam
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 01:14 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:07 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > On 03/08/2012 05:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > You are right but changing the desktop environment is what OP seems > > to want to do. > > No - he wants to change the D

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 09:21 -0600, Aaron Konstam wrote: > On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 01:14 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 18:07 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > On 03/08/2012 05:04 PM, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > > You are right but changing the desktop environment is wh

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-10 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/2012 06:09 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Currently I'm running KDE with the Desktop Environment set to Gnome as follows: /etc/sysconfig/desktop does not exist and the window manager, which is set on the login screen and remembered after setti

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-11 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Sat, 2012-03-10 at 16:09 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > Currently I'm running KDE with the Desktop Environment set to Gnome as > follows: > /etc/sysconfig/desktop does not exist In recent Fedora versions the file doesn't exist unless you create it. poc -- users mailing list users@l

Re: Strange message at startup

2012-03-11 Thread Jonathan Ryshpan
On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 13:02 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > On 03/07/2012 12:14 PM, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > When Fedora puts up the first login screen after system startup, > > the screen is black except for the login area which shows the names > > of the users who might want to log in, and