"Welome to localhost.localdomain" at login?

[SuperKev]

Hi,

After having a ton of issues with this new pc I acquired (http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,81680.0.html) I finally seemed to have solved the sleep/suspend issue- mostly. At the least the pc is not freezing up on me.

My problem now is one I have never heard of before, when I boot the machine instead of the normal GDM login screen I get a large rectangular white box that says: "Welcome to "localhost.localdomain" and gives me a box to type my name and then password after that.

I can login fine and the pc works but, what is this, why is it there and how can I get back to the normal login screen? I've been using Linux and specifically PCLOS for a few years now and I have never seen this or read about it anyplace so I don't even know what search terms to use to maybe find a solution.

Thanks.

[sixthwheel]

I had the same problem with my Gnome install a few weeks ago.
I was in the middle of a large update, when suddenly the power went out.
When I rebooted, I got that same large white box, and when I logged in it kicked me over to the shell.

I have no idea how to help you, just wanted to let you know that you're not the only one seeing this large white login box.

[SuperKev]

I can get in to my system ok, it's just the login is wrong and I have to shutdown via the power button on the case, if I do it in the OS it kicks me back to the localhost.localdomain login again.

How did you resolve it? Did you reinstall or are you still having this issue too?

Hopefully some smart person here knows how to fix it. Once it's fixed as far as this machine goes I am going to be good to go, which will be a great relief.

[Was_Just19]

Go through the process of creating an internet connection in PCC (for the existing connection), and when you come to the location you can specify whatever name you wish.

It can also be done by editing a file .....  if that is your preference .....

[Neal ManBear]

When GDM doesn't start, XDM loads. You're using XDM as the login manager, that is.

Open PCC > Boot > Set up display manager. Check GDM. Click okay. EXIT PCC. Reboot.

Do not use the power button to turn off your machine. Instead open a terminal and use the command halt or the command reboot.

[sixthwheel]

How did you resolve it?

I installed Zen Mini.

[Dragynn]

How did you resolve it?

I installed Zen Mini.

+1 

[weirdwolf]

Well glad you got it fixed one way or another ,  still I'm going to post what I've started to say  

Hi,

After having a ton of issues with this new pc I acquired (http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,81680.0.html) I finally seemed to have solved the sleep/suspend issue- mostly. At the least the pc is not freezing up on me.

My problem now is one I have never heard of before, when I boot the machine instead of the normal GDM login screen I get a large rectangular white box that says: "Welcome to "localhost.localdomain" and gives me a box to type my name and then password after that.

I can login fine and the pc works but, what is this, why is it there and how can I get back to the normal login screen? I've been using Linux and specifically PCLOS for a few years now and I have never seen this or read about it anyplace so I don't even know what search terms to use to maybe find a solution.

Thanks.

When GDM doesn't start, XDM loads. You're using XDM as the login manager, that is.

Open PCC > Boot > Set up display manager. Check GDM. Click okay. EXIT PCC. Reboot.

Do not use the power button to turn off your machine. Instead open a terminal and use the command halt or the command reboot.

+1
Also you can check the LXDECC > system>GDM settings>Local , there you have a number of choices you can make, under "style" choose "themed with face browser" , and below make sure "LXDE-GDM" is check to get you the default skin
At the bottom under "Welcome message" you can choose "custom" and put what ever message you want to show up if you don't like "Welcome to "localhost.localdomain" . I have "Welcome to the Machine"

I can get in to my system ok, it's just the login is wrong and I have to shutdown via the power button on the case, if I do it in the OS it kicks me back to the localhost.localdomain login again.

Have you been in the PCC Security> Configure system security ? if so and you changed it to "secure"
(or even if you haven't , you might want to look anyways) then goto the "system security" tab and look about half ways down and see if "allow_reboot" is checked to yes or not.
HTH someone

[SuperKev]

Neal's suggestion worked for the GDM screen, thanks Neal!

Unfortunately I'm getting lock ups again (it is Zen-mini BTW)

Only thing I did to it was to attach my old PATA HD so I could retrieve some of my old files from it (current HDD w/OS is a SATA), I don't think that would cause it to lock up. I don't get it because I left it on all night two nights ago and it came back from the screen saver just fine after 8+ hours. I was unable to get my files from the HDD BTW as it was trying to boot from it instead of seeing it as a slave drive- I did have the jumper set correctly.

I have noticed now though that even though I set the screen saver for 10 minutes, it's not coming on at all, so when I come back to it it is locked up again. Up until today the screen saver was coming up as set.

I should probably trash the thing but it can obviously work and I don't want to have wasted 100.00 on it.

Anyone have any ideas? I'm willing to do one more reinstall and then I am going to trash the bugger and just have to eat the C-note.

[SuperKev]

Well here's one I don't get- I switched back to the xdm login and now the screen saver works and it doesn't seem to really sleep/suspend but it will go back to the desktop from the screen saver.

I will leave it run over night and see if it will do so in the morning as well. Am I going to have to use xdm from now on then??

Why does it work if I use xdm but not gdm? Seems it's when xdm popped up is also when my lock ups ended as well.

Hopefully one of you can explain why this is to me.

Thanks

[CaptainSarcastic]

To retrieve the files from the PATA hard drive you should be able to change the boot order set in BIOS to boot from the SATA drive first.  In the even that you have an odd BIOS that won't let you change the boot order properly, you should still be able to set it to boot from CD and boot a live CD, mount both hard drives, and copy the files that way.

You should also have the option of a one-time boot menu, frequently F12 at start-up but I've seen other keys mapped to launch it (it's F8 on the machine I am using right now, for instance).  Using the one-time boot menu you could select the SATA drive with the PATA drive hooked up, and run normally.  Again, if your BIOS doesn't have this option a live CD should still be a workaround.

About the login issues, that I am less certain about.  The sleep/suspend issues you mention make me want to ask for specifics of your swap file setup.

[SuperKev]

To retrieve the files from the PATA hard drive you should be able to change the boot order set in BIOS to boot from the SATA drive first.  In the even that you have an odd BIOS that won't let you change the boot order properly, you should still be able to set it to boot from CD and boot a live CD, mount both hard drives, and copy the files that way.

You should also have the option of a one-time boot menu, frequently F12 at start-up but I've seen other keys mapped to launch it (it's F8 on the machine I am using right now, for instance).  Using the one-time boot menu you could select the SATA drive with the PATA drive hooked up, and run normally.  Again, if your BIOS doesn't have this option a live CD should still be a workaround.

About the login issues, that I am less certain about.  The sleep/suspend issues you mention make me want to ask for specifics of your swap file setup.

Yeah, I tried with the love CD but it actually locked up on me the same way it has been with the installed OS I might try again today because I need my files and I don't have an external enclosure I can use, but I am reluctant until I know I have the lock up issue sorted, would be a lot of wasted effort if I have to end up creating a another machine from my old gamer.

Should I set the PATA drive to slave or something else with the jumpers? I am going to have to connect it to IDE2 however because my CD-ROM is on IDE1.

As far as the swap I have 3 GB RAM so I created a 6 GB swap file.

[SuperKev]

Ok, been on almost 24 hours straight and while it will not suspend/sleep it's not locked up either.

So is this an issue with GDM then? If so, what is the issue?

[SuperKev]

Anyone?

[Neal ManBear]

Ok, been on almost 24 hours straight and while it will not suspend/sleep it's not locked up either.

So is this an issue with GDM then? If so, what is the issue?

I don't know what is causing the problem. I don't think GDM has anything to do with suspend/sleep, but I don't know for sure. I don't use either.