On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 05:36:47 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions > > that X or the DE fails to start? > > Nothing, as long as it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Then it helps to > be able to log in to a console prompt and do something like this: > > $ startxfce4& (sleep 20; killall X)
In that case I'd either SSH in from another machine (or my phone) or reboot with gentoo=nox. -- Neil Bothwick mandelbug /man'del-buhg/ n. [from the Mandelbrot set] A bug whose underlying causes are so complex and obscure as to make its behavior appear chaotic or even non-deterministic. This term implies that the speaker thinks it is a Bohr bug, rather than a heisenbug. See also schroedinbug.
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