emccornack 0 Posted February 22, 2005 Hi all of you, I installed FC3 on its own disk. Went very well. I used YUM to update after install. A slug of them were ready. No problems with that. When i reboot just before desk top i get a msg that says it couldnt find (comcastnet) and i should add it to host names and might be ok. I went to gedit /etc/hosts/ and added it next to last line of local host where i was told to do it. It was to long and part of it jumped to next line. I thought that would be ok. So saved and exit. WELL......next time i rebooted, it went thru its process and then ended up on a black screen and not a thing else!! HELP HELP!! Please. ALSO. when i do alt-del-f1 it wont let me get into gedit to remove what i did. In fact it wont let me in anything. Always permission denied. Im not entirely sure what i did is the whole problem, but im stumped!! Share this post Link to post
Jimxugle 0 Posted February 22, 2005 Try Turning your monitor off... wait 10 seconds and then turn it back on... LCD Right? If that dosnt work... Re-Install! (or Use Duck Tape :-p Share this post Link to post
emccornack 0 Posted February 22, 2005 Well thanks Jim, but thats not it. Its not an lcd (wish it was tho) Nope its in the program somewhere......Tried to reinstall but wouldnt let me, checked a few things and termennated itself. Never got past first few lines of script etc. So what does that mean? I have to repartion and start all over!!! ?? What an ugly ugly thought. Esp since i just got all updated etc...Phewy. Share this post Link to post
danleff 0 Posted February 22, 2005 Try this. Use <ctrl> <alt> <F1> to get to a terminal window. Login as root user... root (enter key) enter your root password (enter key) See if Midnight Commander is installed... Type mc (hit the enter key. navigate to /etc/hosts Open it by hitting F4 to edit the file. CAREFULLY take out the entry that you put in and make sure that the hosts file looks exactly the way it did before you edited it. Hit F2 to save the changes. Hit F10 and follow the prompts to getout of MC. <ctrl> <alt> <del> to reboot. See what happens on next boot. When you get the same error, post exactly what it says, if possible. If it srolls past to the GUI right away, let us know. Share this post Link to post
