Charles....just to be sure, you do know that disc 2 contains
the source rpms of the binary rpms contained on disc 1,
right? Really, the only reason you should need the source rpm
is to modify the the source code and recompile the rpm.
Alan
Charles A Edwards wrote:
>
> Alex
> The only RPM I actually tried to install was cdrecord from disc 2 of the
> Mandrake set. I used Drake so I do not see where that would have corrupted
> any settings.
> Glad to know of the things I can check if it happens again.
> Thanks
>
> Charles
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex V Flinsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 5:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] The Day That KDE Died
>
> > On Tue, 16 May 2000, you wrote:
> > > Well, I had my first big Linux problem today. I had been in this morning
> > > looking at some rpm packs and shutdown as usual. After lunch when I
> booted,
> > > lilo went through its checklist with all [OK] and gets to the black
> screen
> > > that you see just before the KDE login screen appears. Then there is a
> quick
> > > flash of color in the center as KDE is trying to start then black
> screen,
> > > flash of color black screen, flash of color black screen, and so on. I
> had
> > > no avenue of escape other than the reset switch.
> >
> > Tha fact that you got this far means that you did not kill Linux, but
> somehow
> > messed up something for X.
> >
> >
> > > If anyone has an idea as to what might have caused my problem or
> better
> > > yet a way to fix it if it happens again let me know. 2 things you can
> cross
> > > off the list are hardware changes and display properties they were all
> the
> > > same.
> >
> > Depends on exactly what you were doing while looking at rpms. Did you
> install
> > or delete any?
> >
> > If it happens again do the following:
> >
> > boot to the Linux console (enter linux 3 at the lilo prompt)
> > try to start x with the following command string
> >
> > startx > xinfo_stdout 2> xinfo_stderr
> >
> > x will probably die on you the same way that it did before, to make things
> > easier now, just swap consoles (ctrl-alt-f2) and login again.
> >
> > Take a look at the xinfo_stdout and xinfo_stderr files in youre home
> directory.
> > Something in them might give us a clue as to what happened.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Alex
> > (Go easy on me, I'm a COBOL programmer in real life)
> >
> >
