Unable to get by Local host sign in Dell 5150

[zarnad]

I've searched for information and didn't come up with much.

I can't get signed in to Fedora because of the Local Host sign in.

I tried installing Fedora 11 with a DVD and it stopped cold in the middle of the downloads so I tried installing using the generic video driver.

Everything installed fine and when it booted I got the black screen with

localhost login:

I found out I could sign in as root and was able to do that so the black screen has [root@localhost ~]# for a prompt now.

In stuff I did find they said to addusr myname and that was bashed.

Another suggestion was system-config-display and that was bashed.

How do I get into Fedora 11?

[glennzo]

So the system boots but you get no graphical display. Log in as root and add a user for yourself, assuming that you haven't done this yet, for example,

useradd zarnad
passwd zarnad

Then log out of root

logout

and log in using your new user name and password. You will still be at the command prompt but now at least you've created a user. Type

startx

It will likely crash. Look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log for errors

su -c 'cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep EE

This will list errors that may help tp diagnose the graphics card troubles.

[zarnad]

It says usradd: command not found and bashes it.

Does the same thing with addusr

[glennzo]

You left out the e in both cases, useradd.

[zarnad]

Ah! Thanks. Got the the username in now, but won't take a password.

If I have to do both lines together I don't know how to add a new line to add the passwd

Do I have to make the password the same as the username?

[glennzo]

One at a time. First useradd zarnad, which you've already done, then passwd zarnad. You should be prompted for a new password, twice.

[zarnad]

OK, so far so good.
Prompt is my username@local host

I typed in startx and got command not found

[glennzo]

What does the command pwd say? I means print working directory. Try /usr/bin/startx

[zarnad]

pwd says /home/my username

/usr/biin/startx says no such file or directory

[glennzo]

You have 2 i's in /bin. I'm signing off for the night. Good luck.

[zarnad]

That was a typo in here, not at the prompt.

I typed in /usr/bin and it said it was a directory. Just no startx file

[glennzo]

Try su -c 'updatedb', then locate startx. On my system this is what I get.

[Glenn@coolhand ~]$ locate startx
/usr/bin/startx
/usr/bin/startxfce4
/usr/share/man/man1/startx.1.gz

[zarnad]

I really appreciate all your help glennzo.

I need to download the driver for my video card but can't until I get the internet connection going and to do that, I need the router to assign an IP address to eth0 .

I'm dead in the water until I get that going.

A very good friend has been helping too and he suggested I return here about the connection.

[zarnad]

Output from /sbin/ifconfig

eth0 Linkencap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0D:56:A8:84:A6
inet addr: Fe80::20d:56ff:fea8:84a6/64 Scope:Link
UPBROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU1500 Metric 1
RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 :overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes7594 (7.4KiB) TX bytes:492 (492.0b)
Interrupt:17

I'm not getting an IP address from my router on the wired Ethernet connection. Any suggestions?

[zarnad]

Originally Posted by glennzo

Try su -c 'updatedb'

It says bash: updatedb: command not found