RH9 won't boot...Need Imediate help

[me(who else?)]

After foolishly listening to Nodsu and Diou on the #3dspotlight IRC yesterday, I've managed to kill RH9. I get to the Graphical login screen, but when I attempt to login ( to any type, like Gnome or Failsafe mode), I either get an error message that start <> cannot be found, then I get dumped back to my login screen :blackeye: Sometimes it appears to be doing something, while other times it just says that I wasn't logged in for ten seconds, but it always happens. Unfortunately, a project I have due next week is on that laptop... PLEASE HELP.

P.S. I'll sell my soul to Phant if necessary :hotbounce

 

[Phantasm66]

what change did you make before this happened? Can you run Xconfigurator again in the console to redetect your graphical hardware and reconfigure?

 

[me(who else?)]

Never mind, in IRC we solved the problem in about 5 minutes...
Logging into a text console than logging out fixed it.

 

[Phantasm66]

Just out of interest, what was the problem and how did you resolve it?

 

[me(who else?)]

I just couldn't log into a desktop, so I booted into a prompt, then quit and I could log in just fine.

 

[DelJo63]

I just couldn't log into a desktop, so I booted into a prompt, then quit and I could log in just fine.

X-11/graphic login is too risky - - always boot into line mode and then
start the graphics front-end. This way, you always get something that at least gives you a Linux environment to work in

 

[Nodsu]

The command line is always there no matter what you mode you boot into. Just change the VT by hitting ctrl+alt+F1 to get the command line console #1. X lives under F7 in Linux.