Now that's interesting. kde flaked out on me after I made some network changes tring to get apache set up. it must try to set up some network thing on startup. is this something that should be reported as a bug? gavin > I ran linux 3 at the boot prompt, then logged in as root, and discovered by > local ip was pounded out (#). I fixed it the started kdm. All seemed ok, then > rebooted and now all works. Kinda strange. > > Bruce > > On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, you wrote: >> > ... in the >> > process of changing IPs I somehow managed to screw up Linux. >> > >> > It will boot, go thru is startup scripts then stick when KDM window should >> > come up and then do nothing. I can't even get a console to check things >> > out. If I can get to a consle via a floppy boot, I have no idea what to fix >> > to get X working. >> > >> > Any ideas? >> >> This happened to me too - X went blank when I started it and I coulnd't even >> get another console to kill it. >> >> All I could think of was to get the cd and do an 'upgrade' - in the >> installer I fiddled with the X confg part to force it to overwrite the X >> settings but left everything else alone. it came up fine after that. If I >> did it now I would try to start it in run level 3 (dosen't start X at boot >> time) and run drakX or whatever it's called to make new X settings. >> >> >>Should also be able to type "linux 3" at the LILO prompt to >> >>boot (one time) to runlevel 3. >> >> John >> >> >> Gavin > -- > Best Regards, Bruce > > Father to Bruce, Maverick & Aleister 1 Feb 2000 > "I'm a man, I can change, if I have to, I guess" Men Anonymous > (from "The New Red Green Show") > > My website > http://harrisherd.ahv.cx > or > http://207.167.130.166 > >
