I would like to thank both of you for helping me to solve the problem. Sorry I was
so slow to "get it". It is all fixed up and working fine now.
Murray Strome
RReed wrote:
> Press your.. ahem.. non-start key.. the geared K one at lower left go to KDE
> control center........applications...........login manager......sessions......then
> i believe you want to choose console only....
>
> R Reed
>
> Murray Strome wrote:
>
> > Hi
>
> -- thanks for trying to help. I cannot find any configuration
> program which
>
> > has a LOGIN Manager associated with it. I looked through all
> the items in the
>
> > list -- found some things which said configuration, but none seemed
> to have a
>
> > configuration manager. If I try to start gnome from anywhere,
> I get a message
>
> > which says "Gnome segmentation fault, report bug to development team".
>
> >
>
> > Next time you at your LINUX machine, perhaps you could take a look
> and help me
>
> > find the item. Thanks.
>
> >
>
> > Murray Strome
>
> > Aaron deRozario wrote:
>
> >
>
> > > I know I had a similar problem after a bad unmount problem.
> The Mandrake
>
> > > login screen disappeared and was replaced with the standard KDE
> login screen
>
> > > and no Shutdown button. I stumbled upon the solution by accident.
>
> > >
>
> > > If you log in as root and start up the KDE configuration program
> (sorry I
>
> > > can't remember the name - I am at work on Windows - it is the program
> you
>
> > > use to change backgrounds etc and has a button on the panel).
> In there you
>
> > > will find the LOGIN manager. Under teh login amanager you
> will find a whole
>
> > > heap of things you can configure. You will find a section
> on Shutdown
>
> > > permissions (I think I used Shutdown for all) that put the Shutdown
> button
>
> > > back on the login screen.
>
> > >
>
> > > There is also a section on sessions. Add a session called
> kde (otherwise
>
> > > kde sort of disappears). You can also add WindowMaker.
> I did this creating
>
> > > two possible sessions KDE and WindowMaker, however after a while
> (proabably
>
> > > a restart) all the options miraculously returned (IceWM etc).
> I'm not
>
> > > quite sure why that happened.
>
> > >
>
> > > There is also an option that gives an icon for various users.
> This was not
>
> > > part of the default configuration for Mandrake, though it is for
> Caldera.
>
> > > It does speed up login (not that typing your username is particularly
> slow).
>
> > > There are a few other things you can configure as well (startup
> screen
>
> > > wallpaper etc).
>
> > >
>
> > > Sorry I can't be more descriptive, as I said I'm at work and don't
> have a
>
> > > linux box in front of me.
>
> > >
>
> > > Hope this helps.
>
> > >
>
> > > Aaron
>
> > >
>
> > > > -----Original Message-----
>
> > > > From: Murray Strome [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 1999 2:55
>
> > > > To: LINUX Newbie
>
> > > > Subject: [newbie] KDE Messed up
>
> > > >
>
> > > > Can anyone help me with this one?
>
> > > >
>
> > > >
>
> > > > I am not sure what exactly caused it, but during a session, the
> system
>
> > > > locked up and nothing
>
> > > > could get it going except to restart it. After this, the
> initial box in
>
> > > > KDE is messed up. Until this
>
> > > > happened, that box gave me a pull down menu with several start-up
>
> > > > possibilities (such as
>
> > > > KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker and many others), and there was a button
> which
>
> > > > allowed one to
>
> > > > shutdown or restart the computer. It has been replaced
> with a similar box
>
> > > > with a large "24" at
>
> > > > the top, a pull down menu with only KDE and Failsafe options
> and no button
>
> > > > for
>
> > > > shutdown/restart.
>
> > > >
>
> > > > How can I recover the original box? During reboot, the only things
> which
>
> > > > fail are the sound
>
> > > > card item (which I still have not been able to resolve -- Acer
> FX-3D
>
> > > > (1816)) and I get a
>
> > > > message
>
> > > >
>
> > > > mountd: couldn't start /var/lib/nfs/xtab
>
> > > >
>
> > > > Also, during shutdown, I got a message saying it could not unmount
> NFS
>
> > > > system. I don't
>
> > > > know if these are related or not.
>
> > > >
>
> > > >
>
