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.)