As root, you can view the /var/log/messages file in a text editor (vi, or
your favourite), or cat the file piping it through more:
cat /varlog/messages |more
Do you have a list of the daemons you "deleted", and a description of the
fashion in which you achieved this? Actually removing things is not always a
good idea...whoever you got the instructions from might need a spanking.
Renaming is the better way to stop services, or linuxconf and setup would do
a fine job of the same. But, since you don't seem to have linuxconf (have
you tried typing the word "linuxconf" at a command prompt? Of course,
without the quotes!) we might need to get this back.
>From the command line once logged in init3 you can try the command: startx
to attempt returning to XWindows.
Let me know where you went to get this info, and I'll check it out to see
where we can go from here.
--Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: "ai4a" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> My system:
> AMD K6-2 500MHZ
> 64Mb ram
> 10 Gb drive
> Mandrake 7.0
> using KDE
> netscape & a modem
>
> What I did (what a dumb thing to do):
> I got some info from the internet about stopping all unused daemons with
> a recommend list of daemons to remove. I deleted the ones they
> recommended (using DrakConf). Then I restarted my system.
>
> The problem:
> The system boots up to the penguin logon prompt & the tries to got to
> the Xwindows ? logon screen. the monitor makes a click, goes blank, &
> returns to the Penguin logon screen for a half second. Then loops in
> this click, goes blank, & return to the penguin.
>
> What I have tried!
> I have the same Mandrake installed on my old machine. Cyrix 133 Mhz, 48
> Mb, 2Gb drive, no modem. I looked on this machine at /etc/rc.d/rc5.d
> (run level 5 I hope).
> I was able to logon the new (failing) machine as linux level: 3 as root.
> Went to /etc/rc.d/rc5.d and checked the files between the two machines.
> The following files were missing on the failing machine:
> S50inet
> S25netfs
> S10network
> S05kudzu
>
> I tried using linuxconf (on both machines), but I could not get it to
> work (sorry I am a newbie). I noticed that all the files were symbolic
> links so I did ...................... ln -s ../init.d/inet
> for all the missing files (changing the /inet as needed). I can see some
> of the daemons start during boot (maybe all of them, I do not know), How
> can I look at the boot messages. I looked at dmesg but that does not
> have all the messages.
>
> I can boot to level 3 so I can logon as root and do things, but I have
> no idea what to do. Any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks
> Charles
>
>
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