On Mon, 26 Jul 1999, Mark E Hood wrote: > Yes. Count me as also having had this problem. I, too, would love to know > how to fix it. Seems to be a problem. > mark > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: David Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 6:55 PM > Subject: [newbie] Problems with X and Mandrake screen > > > > I've installed Mandrake 6.0 successfully on my Cyrix166 machine, and I've > > been running kde (though I've had the choice of gnome, etc.). However, > > after 3/4 days, kde begins to lock-up, causing me to have to reset the > > machine. After this reset, the Mandrake X screen is replaced by the kde > > screen (in which I can choose only kde and failsafe, and there is no > > 'shutdown' option on the screen. I too had problems with KDE though it never got so bad I had to reset thereby causing disk corruption. In the future, when KDE or anyother X app on any desktop causes a lock up, try to get out of it by using the kill command. If X locks up, try this, In example: Use Ctrl + Alt + F2 (you will see a new tty come up with the standard login prompt) Login as root and then type in the root password At the prompt, type: ps ax you will get a screen full of information of all the running processes, on the far left are numbers (like 552, 553 and so on) these are the PID's (process Identification Number, I believe.) anyway, the last two should be your new login, usually bash (or whatever shell you normally use) and the, ps ax command you just entered. Usually the one right above them is the process that is the culprit. Write down the PID of that process. Then at the prompt type the following: kill <PID # > ie: kill 556 That will kill that process and hopefully free up X. Now use Ctr + Alt +F7 to return to your Xsession and see if it worked. It always has seemed to work for me. (I think I had to do this three times.) As a last resort, if the X session just won't free up, use Ctrl + Alt + backspace to kill the Xsession and return to a prompt ( at that time a reboot might be a good idea as the system might have been rendered unstable) so use shutdown -r now ( shutdown -h now - to shut it down) never ever turn off Linux when running if you can ever avoid it. Also, if you (like Me) do not want to use KDE and hate to have to change the default on the Xwindow login all the time. Use a text editor (any will do) and create a file called "desktop" (without the quotes of course) and place it in the /etc/sysconfig dirrectory. It should contain one line, which should be the desktop environment you want to use, such as the following. GNOME or KDE or AnotherLevel Just the one line in the same case as above. Xinit will look here first, if this file exists it will use this setting to start X, you will still get a prompt for Login and password but it might be a different format depending on your choice of dektop environment. As to getting back to normal now, I wish I knew more, I am a newbie too, if you get no better sugestions you might try to re-install using the upgrade option. You will still keep any new stuff you put in, but KDE and gnome will start from scratch with the default settings. So you will loose any customizations to your desktop you applied. Perhaps someone else can offer a better solution? John Love [EMAIL PROTECTED]
