On Dec 4,  7:09am, Lucas Vogel wrote:

> I followed some recommendations and installed the Gnome from their website
> with their excellent installer. My system is now a Gnome system, but there
> is one little problem - I can't type my name into the login prompt to sign
> in to it. I've only been able to do it once, after rebooting. Even then, the
> system seemed to crash or something after trying to come out of the
> screensaver - whatever happened I had to reboot. As it stands right now, I
> can't log in at all.
> 
> It's getting to the point where I'm REALLY starting to get pissed off...

Does VT switching via CTRL-ALT-F2, etc. work?

If so, you may want to log in via this route to try to figure out
what's going on.  (Do let us know what the problem was when you figure
it out.)

Kevin