ok so i installed fedora and rebooted my system, then when i log in i just get the textured gray screen and it has the fedora logo at the bottom. nothing happens, the mouse is usable but i cant get a task bar or anything to come up
please update gdm to gdm-3.8.4-2. This should fix your issue.
Unfortunately that doesn't fix it for me. I have the same problem - after login, just get a dark blue screen and the Fedora logo, never get a session. This is when I use fedup to upgrade from F18.
However running the Live CD for F19 does work correctly, gives me a session. So presumably the hardware is supported.
I also tried making a new user account, in case something in my environment screws it up. But that gave the same results.
Also if I install to hard drive from the live CD I get the same problem. So I'm having to go back to F18 until there is some resolution of this problem.
(several hours later) after reading the comments on bug 955779 I installed kdm and system-switch-displaymanager and changed the display manager to KDM. Now I have a usable system. Note: installing kdb drags in an awful lot of stuff - I should have tried one of the simpler display managers.
How do you install kdm and system-switch-displaymanager when you dont get a desktop in the first place?
Asked: 2013-08-13 08:23:52 -0600
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Last updated: Nov 26 '13
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This sounds a lot like you're hitting https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=955779 - you might want to follow that.