Installations stals

[enlox]

my fedora/amahi installation stops at first reboot...

the fedora logo come up after about 20 minutes but after that nothing more happens..
(fedora logo on the light blue background, that shows after the white "bulb"-looking thingy has been filled)

any idea as to what my problem is?

(gigabyte mini-itx with intel atom d510 and 2gb ram w/ 2,5" drive and external DVD)

[moredruid]

can you change the terminal with Ctrl+F1 (up to F7 may be required to press) to get to a real terminal, not a nice bootsplash screen (this is the reason I disable the bootsplash )

do you get a list presented by grub at boot time (i.e. you can choose what to boot)? if so you can edit lines: remove the "rhgb quiet" part in your boot parameters: you should then see what's going on during boot.

[enlox]

found some console output with loads of text... but this is the final content of it.

the amahi installation fails when it come to time zone settings.
my fedora time zone setting is not accepted (something about greyhole, W. European) so amahi writes it own and then it fails/stops...

this is not cut'n paste:

starting amahi installer: PHP warning. it is not safe to rely on system timezone settings. you are *required* to use date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function.
then goes on about misspelling and using/selecting "Europe\Berlin" for "CEST/2.0/DST instead of /user/bin/greyhole on line 39

[enlox]

rebooted from last post...

managed to get back into the console again
at this point i pressed ctrl+al+del and got a fedora logon screen

my problem now is that the password i set for what i thought was root is not accepted
i checked the spelling of my password (due to kbd layout) so i know it is correct

do i really have to make a reinstall of it all?
could this all come from the fact that i choose Swedish when i installed Fedora?
do i have to make the installation in English for Amahi to work?

[moredruid]

it _shouldn't_ be necessary to choose english, but I think it's best to choose it.
if you need to recover your password:
reboot, in grub edit the 2nd line of your preferred kernel, make sure there is no init entry already, add init=/bin/bash and boot

booting will be very quick and drop you to a root shell
remount the root system read-write:

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mount -o remount,rw /

change your password:

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passwd

reboot the system:

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reboot

[enlox]

thanx moredruid... but now i can't get to the logon screen again

ctrl+alt+del sometimes reboot the machine and sometimes get me to logon screen

guess i will reinstall from scratch and use some password without strange characters like the / (which moves around depending on kbd layout)

i'll come back on the matter if still an issue

[moredruid]

I'd choose a simple password first (letters only), e.g. your name, or your cats' name. For installing that should be sufficient, you can always choose to change it later on. If you change it later: type the password first on your terminal so you can see what characters are actually being interpreted (could be different from what's on your keyboard). Press Ctrl+C to break the password off when you've seen it (if you press <enter> it will show up in your history, you can clean your history with history -c IIRC) and do the change password dance