On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 07:04:16AM EST, Jason Filippou wrote: > Hello, > > I run Testing with KDE and accidentally hit ctrl alt f11 instead of > some kde effects combination. As a result of this, I was given a > prompt I couldn't propery interact with,
What did the prompt look like? How were you unable to properly interact with it? If I hit Ctrl-Alt-F11 from my X session, all I see is an empty screen. > and then I hit cltr alt delete to restart my system. /etc/inittab should tell you what Ctrl-Alt-Del is mapped to, usually 'shutdown -t1 -a -r now', which should have given you a clean reboot. Are you sure nothing else happened? > When I logged into my Debian partition, I realized that the system > fonts had all been altered and made quite uglier and less readable What do you mean by 'system fonts'? Do you mean the messages while the system is booting.. the fixed font on the linux console after you login from the prompt.. the widget fonts in gnome, KDE..? > and my system sounds aren't playing by default: I receive a > notification from Phonon that my audio device isn't playing correctly > and that it's falling back to pulseaudio. This is interesting, because > I don't have pulseaudio in my system; I have removed it. Well at least the bright side is that you will enjoy some peace and quiet while you fix the problem ;-) > When I rebooted, What's the exact scenerio.. did you reboot a second time? > I was told that I needed to login to a root shell for maintenance and > perforn an fsck. Are you sure you didn't do a hard reset at some point? Was the fsck succesful? You may want to su to root and shut down the system like so to force an fsck when the it restarts: # shutdown -h -F now See what it tells you. > So I did, but the problem persists You mean the fonts..? the audio..? or does a reboot always take you back to a root shell for maintenance every time you reboot..? > What do I do to regain my Debian partition's full functionality? You need to give more information as to what you did, what you are seeing, and what is not functional at this point. CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
