Just don't tell my wife I did something useful .... She'll never believe it *grin*.... Glad it worked.
James On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 05:05, Mark Weaver wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mark Weaver wrote: > | James Sparenberg wrote: > | > |> Mark > |> > |> Getting this information might help you or us in troubleshooting the > |> problem. > |> 1. what dm do you use kdm or gdm (kde or gnome) or somthing completely > |> different. > |> 2. as root cd to /var/log/ then do > |> tail -f XFree86.0.log (yours might be 1 or 2 but for most is 0.) > |> > |> Then put a bunch of ++++++ or some other symbol across the screen (to > |> mark what's new vs old) and try to start an x session using startx . > |> Enclose this output and about the last 20 lines of what startx spits out > |> when it dies. Also look at the last few lines of /var/log/messages to > |> see if it has any info. > |> > |> My guess to the problem is. > |> > |> 1. It forgot what kind of mouse you have. > |> 2. xfs (X font server) isn't running, or is dieing immediately. > |> 3. /tmp might have lost a couple of files and this really messes things > |> up. > |> 4. The linux gods have decided to keep you busy over the holidays *grin* > |> > |> > |> James > | > | > | Awesome James... As soon as I've got all these goodies I'll post back to > | the list. Thanks! :) > | > | Mark > > James, > > I figured it out. Thanks for the good tips. You got me looking in the > right direction. I had forgotten that the other I had started doing > updates with the update manager and had to kill the process. some of > those packages were kde packages and kde got hosed. Along with most of > the file ownership of my home dir. > > Once I got KDE fixed the rest was a snap. All is well with the world > again and I *won't* be spending the holidays Mandrakeless or scurrying > about my system with a silly clueless look on my mug tryin to figure out > why its broken. :) > > Mark > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQE+BbidJuZ1geTzHgERAh+fAKDzqK92EcVInDUZ7xXIj97gJ/evNQCdHUgt > nwe7finV1fchjVbWz0LSUGo= > =rKYT > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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