Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17 looking for when it
boots up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried has
failed. Please help.

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On 11/04/12 14:08, Lawrence Graves wrote:

Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17


No idea,
didn't know it was released.


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I am sorry. Some of the what I wrote got cut off. I was talking
about Fedora 17 Beta RC4 release.



On 04/11/2012 07:13 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:
On
11/04/12 14:08, Lawrence Graves wrote:


Just want to ask one question. What is
Fedora 17





No idea,


didn't know it was released.









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On 04/11/2012 09:08 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:

Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17 looking for when it
boots up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried has
failed. Please help.
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I'm assuming you are using the latest RC of F17? Sounds to me like you
didn't name the system you installed it on, so it defaulted to
'localhost'. When you installed, did it not ask to add a new user
account?


Have you tried logging in with root?


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On 04/11/2012 10:20 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:

I am sorry. Some of the what I wrote got cut off. I was talking about
Fedora 17 Beta RC4 release.

On 04/11/2012 07:13 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:

On 11/04/12 14:08, Lawrence Graves wrote:

Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17


No idea,
didn't know it was released.




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What Frank means is that you should ask your question to the devel list
(devel@lists.fedoraproject.org) because F17 was not released yet


Germán.

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Yes to all of your questions. It did not ask for a new user account.
I did it in a virtual machine. VMware Workstation 8



On 04/11/2012 07:29 AM, Mark Haney wrote:
On
04/11/2012 09:08 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:


Just want to ask one question. What is
Fedora 17 looking for when it


boots up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried
has


failed. Please help.


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I'm assuming you are using the latest RC of F17? Sounds to me like
you didn't name the system you installed it on, so it defaulted to
'localhost'.* When you installed, did it not ask to add a new user
account?




Have you tried logging in with root?









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On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 09:29 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> On 04/11/2012 09:08 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
> > Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17 looking for when it
> > boots up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried has
> > failed. Please help.
> > --
> > Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
> >
> >
>
> I'm assuming you are using the latest RC of F17? Sounds to me like you
> didn't name the system you installed it on, so it defaulted to
> 'localhost'. When you installed, did it not ask to add a new user
> account?
>
> Have you tried logging in with root?
>
>
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>
> Mark Haney
> Software Developer/Consultant
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> markh@abemblem.com
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GUI login? Echo other comment about setting up a mortal user during
install or first boot. Have you tried to login an root via CLI?
(ctrl-alt-f2)

But really questions for F17 should be directed at the test list. F17
isn't prime time yet.

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On 04/11/2012 07:32 AM, "Germán A. Racca" wrote:
On
04/11/2012 10:20 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:


I am sorry. Some of the what I wrote got
cut off. I was talking about


Fedora 17 Beta RC4 release.




On 04/11/2012 07:13 AM, Frank Murphy wrote:


On 11/04/12 14:08, Lawrence Graves
wrote:


Just want to ask one question. What is
Fedora 17





No idea,


didn't know it was released.









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work.









What Frank means is that you should ask your question to the devel
list (devel@lists.fedoraproject.org) because F17 was not released
yet




Germán.





Didn't know they had such a list. Will submit to them from now on.
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:08, Lawrence Graves <lgraves95@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17 looking for when it boots
> up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried has failed. Please
> help.

Must be an encrypted partition?
btw: I think this list is not for F17 questions. ;-P
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On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 09:34:57AM -0400, Terry Polzin wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 09:29 -0400, Mark Haney wrote:
> > On 04/11/2012 09:08 AM, Lawrence Graves wrote:
> > > Just want to ask one question. What is Fedora 17 looking for when it
> > > boots up and ask for localhost login. Everything I have tried has
> > > failed. Please help.
> > > --
> > > Lawrence Graves All things are workable but don't all things work.
> > >
> > >
> >
> > I'm assuming you are using the latest RC of F17? Sounds to me like you
> > didn't name the system you installed it on, so it defaulted to
> > 'localhost'. When you installed, did it not ask to add a new user
> > account?
> >
> > Have you tried logging in with root?
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Mark Haney
> > Software Developer/Consultant
> > AB Emblem
> > markh@abemblem.com
> > Linux marius.homelinux 3.3.0-8.fc16.x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> GUI login? Echo other comment about setting up a mortal user during
> install or first boot. Have you tried to login an root via CLI?
> (ctrl-alt-f2)
>
> But really questions for F17 should be directed at the test list. F17
> isn't prime time yet.

Looking past the number '17' in the question -- this is a very general
question common to all Fedora releases. When you see "localhost
login:" on the screen, you either don't have a graphical environment
installed, or the graphical X Window System failed to start. If that
happened, it's likely that firstboot, the graphical helper that lets
you set up a user account, didn't run, so you may not be able to log
in as a standard user.

You can still login at this prompt with your 'root' account and
password. From that point, you can look at /var/log/Xorg.0.log to see
what happened that caused your X Window System to fail. If you want
to post that for people here to look at and offer advice, please
*don't* attach the file to your email. It will probably be too big
and your message won't come through. Instead, post it somewhere like
http://fpaste.org and send a link to your paste here.

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