Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux again!
I agree with Charles. Boot into failsafe, and disable VMC at boot, and disable Aurora. In my cases, I've had it where with Aurora, it freezes at VNC, but if I disable Aurora, it will run the VNC server with no problem. But you don't need that started at boot. Run the command ntsysv. Find the VNC stuff in there, and un-select it. It can take up some of your computing power, and it's easily started via a command. From there you can use it and learn to play with it. It's not a bad app though. http://www.tridiavnc.com/ Check there for more information. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN: 17021091 - "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: 2:19PM up 8 days, 1:21, 4 users, load averages: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00 | Dear All, I went through this last week because of Netscape. I have LM8 just |reinstalled got everything tweaked and last I decided to add the VNC rpms, because |after reading about how you can share internet connections cross-platform with it I |thought that it sounded great. Today when I booted up and it got to the VNC server on |the boot text screen it would just hang. I have to reboot every time now and cannot |get past that. How may I get into Linux and undo the VNC rpms so that I do not have |to reinstall? I really do not wish to reinstall since I have to find new printer |drivers each time and tweak for days. | | Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. | | Sincerely, | | Marcia -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cannot get into Linux again!
Dear All, I went through this last week because of Netscape. I have LM8 just reinstalled got everything tweaked and last I decided to add the VNC rpms, because after reading about how you can share internet connections cross-platform with it I thought that it sounded great. Today when I booted up and it got to the VNC server on the boot text screen it would just hang. I have to reboot every time now and cannot get past that. How may I get into Linux and undo the VNC rpms so that I do not have to reinstall? I really do not wish to reinstall since I have to find new printer drivers each time and tweak for days. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux
Dear Tim, I have tried your suggestions and I just get invalid commands and that there are no kde or enlightement files anywhere. I used the rm command exactly as you wrote and I just got an invalid command. Is there anything else that can be done? Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia - Original Message - From: Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Marcia L Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 1:26 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux > What was the command typed then? If the command was typed out > correctly, it woul have worked just fine. > > rm -Rf ~/.kde > > This wil remove the directory that keeps all the PERSONAL kde configs on > your machine. If you get rid of that, you should be able to basically > start all over with out them, and they will be made as you start to > login. > > You said you can't load any other windows managers either. How did you > go about loading them? If you're in level 3, you'll have to edit the > ~/.xinitrc to load the right windows manager. > > Try editing your ~/.xinitrc to load another windows manager. Try these > commands. > > [timh@r2d2 timh]$ which enlightenment > /usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment > [timh@r2d2 timh]$ echo "exec enlightenment" > ~/.xinitrc > [timh@r2d2 timh]$ chmod +x ~/.xinitrc > > After you've done that, run xinit or startx. You should then load > Enlightenment. Just click the middle mouse button and then select "Log > Out" to get out of Enlightenment. That will prove that X is running > fine, and it's KDE that's the problem. But I do believe if you run the > correct command, (rm -Rf ~/.kde) your problem will be fixed. > tdh > > -- > T. Holmes > - > UNIXTECHS.org > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - > "Real Men Use Vi!" > > Uptime: > > 4:18pm up 1 day, 20:01, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00 > > | Dear All, Thank you so much for the wonderful suggestions. Civilme, I tried > | your solution below, however I just got an erro message that it was an > | incorrect command. I was able to get to a console though through F3 I > | believe and found my files in text mode. It seemed that I was able to move > | around there without a problem but I cannot get KDE up or any other window > | manager. Since I can get into my filesystem through the console what can I > | do about repairing my X, window managers or whatever is truly wrong here. > | Thanks for your help. > | > | Sincerely, > | > | Marcia > | > | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > -- > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux
What was the command typed then? If the command was typed out correctly, it woul have worked just fine. rm -Rf ~/.kde This wil remove the directory that keeps all the PERSONAL kde configs on your machine. If you get rid of that, you should be able to basically start all over with out them, and they will be made as you start to login. You said you can't load any other windows managers either. How did you go about loading them? If you're in level 3, you'll have to edit the ~/.xinitrc to load the right windows manager. Try editing your ~/.xinitrc to load another windows manager. Try these commands. [timh@r2d2 timh]$ which enlightenment /usr/X11R6/bin/enlightenment [timh@r2d2 timh]$ echo "exec enlightenment" > ~/.xinitrc [timh@r2d2 timh]$ chmod +x ~/.xinitrc After you've done that, run xinit or startx. You should then load Enlightenment. Just click the middle mouse button and then select "Log Out" to get out of Enlightenment. That will prove that X is running fine, and it's KDE that's the problem. But I do believe if you run the correct command, (rm -Rf ~/.kde) your problem will be fixed. tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "Real Men Use Vi!" Uptime: 4:18pm up 1 day, 20:01, 3 users, load average: 0.04, 0.02, 0.00 | Dear All, Thank you so much for the wonderful suggestions. Civilme, I tried | your solution below, however I just got an erro message that it was an | incorrect command. I was able to get to a console though through F3 I | believe and found my files in text mode. It seemed that I was able to move | around there without a problem but I cannot get KDE up or any other window | manager. Since I can get into my filesystem through the console what can I | do about repairing my X, window managers or whatever is truly wrong here. | Thanks for your help. | | Sincerely, | | Marcia | | Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? | Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux
Dear All, Thank you so much for the wonderful suggestions. Civilme, I tried your solution below, however I just got an erro message that it was an incorrect command. I was able to get to a console though through F3 I believe and found my files in text mode. It seemed that I was able to move around there without a problem but I cannot get KDE up or any other window manager. Since I can get into my filesystem through the console what can I do about repairing my X, window managers or whatever is truly wrong here. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia - Original Message - From: civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Marcia L Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux > On Sunday 23 September 2001 03:17, Marcia L Waller wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > Last night I was using Netscape and minimized my window while I was > > working on something else. I forgot that I had Netscape open and opened > > it again and got the usual warning message that someone else is using it. > > I realized then I was already on and shut that message down. I tried to > > find my other open one at the bottom bar but it was gone it seemed. I > > thought that I would just shut down and things should be OK. I did then > > opened Netscape and it thought I should sign up again and put my info > > into preferences as if I was never on it before. I canceled that and > > decided to shut down again. When I turned it on that time I went through > > the start up fine got to the login and after logging in it waited 20 > > minutes with the arrow on the blue screen before it finally gave me an > > error message which said: > > > > "There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. > > The mesage returned by the wystem was: Could not read network connection > > list. /home/marcia.DCOPServer cdm-208-215-124-bntv-:0 > > Please check that the "dcop server" is running! > > > > It has been the same story since. Does anyone have ideas how I can fix > > this without losing everything and installing again? I have had Linux > > Mandrake 8 for awhile and had just about everything fine tuned and > > working well plus some great new programs that I did not get to back up > > yet. It took my a month to get cups printing to work right with my Epson > > Stylus Color. I definitely do not want to reinstall. Any suggestion will > > be great suggested. > > > > Thanks. > > > > Sincerely, > > > > Marcia > > > Marcia > > Just hit escape when you see the lilo boot screen and type > > linux 3 > > When the system comes up, then login in _Console_ mode and > type this > > rm -r ~/.kde -f > > startx > > You will have to restore a few personal settings but otherwise should be OK. > > Civileme > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux
I dont recognize the error, but I would guess you have a process hung. I would first log in to gnome and see if you get the same error there (that would tell you if it is a kde problem) I would second try another browser to see if it is a netscape specific problem. Third, use the top command to see if there is a netscape process running that needs to be shut down. If they are use the kill command to exit them. Fourth, create a new user, and see if the netscape problem occurs on other users. Hope that helps. Paul -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles A Edwards Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:17:38 -0700 Marcia L Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Last night I was using Netscape and minimized my window while I was > working on something else. I forgot that I had Netscape open and opened > it again and got the usual warning message that someone else is using it. > I realized then I was already on and shut that message down. I tried to > find my other open one at the bottom bar but it was gone it seemed. I > thought that I would just shut down and things should be OK. I did then > opened Netscape and it thought I should sign up again and put my info > into preferences as if I was never on it before. I canceled that and > decided to shut down again. When I turned it on that time I went through > the start up fine got to the login and after logging in it waited 20 > minutes with the arrow on the blue screen before it finally gave me an > error message which said: > > "There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. > The mesage returned by the wystem was: Could not read network connection > list. /home/marcia.DCOPServer cdm-208-215-124-bntv-:0 > Please check that the "dcop server" is running! > > It has been the same story since. Does anyone have ideas how I can fix > this without losing everything and installing again? I have had Linux > Mandrake 8 for awhile and had just about everything fine tuned and > working well plus some great new programs that I did not get to back up > yet. It took my a month to get cups printing to work right with my Epson > Stylus Color. I definitely do not want to reinstall. Any suggestion will > be great suggested. > Marcia At one time I knew how to fix that but it has been so long since I have even used kde that the solution is now buried somewhere in the dark recesses of my brain. If no one else submits the answer I'll try to beat it out and get back to you. In the meantime do not do anything drastic. You can still run any of the other WMs. You will not be able to use any of the purly kde apps but there but there are other that can be used in their stead. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. And for too many there are now no tomorrows. I Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cannot get into Linux
On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 18:17:38 -0700 Marcia L Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Last night I was using Netscape and minimized my window while I was > working on something else. I forgot that I had Netscape open and opened > it again and got the usual warning message that someone else is using it. > I realized then I was already on and shut that message down. I tried to > find my other open one at the bottom bar but it was gone it seemed. I > thought that I would just shut down and things should be OK. I did then > opened Netscape and it thought I should sign up again and put my info > into preferences as if I was never on it before. I canceled that and > decided to shut down again. When I turned it on that time I went through > the start up fine got to the login and after logging in it waited 20 > minutes with the arrow on the blue screen before it finally gave me an > error message which said: > > "There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. > The mesage returned by the wystem was: Could not read network connection > list. /home/marcia.DCOPServer cdm-208-215-124-bntv-:0 > Please check that the "dcop server" is running! > > It has been the same story since. Does anyone have ideas how I can fix > this without losing everything and installing again? I have had Linux > Mandrake 8 for awhile and had just about everything fine tuned and > working well plus some great new programs that I did not get to back up > yet. It took my a month to get cups printing to work right with my Epson > Stylus Color. I definitely do not want to reinstall. Any suggestion will > be great suggested. > Marcia At one time I knew how to fix that but it has been so long since I have even used kde that the solution is now buried somewhere in the dark recesses of my brain. If no one else submits the answer I'll try to beat it out and get back to you. In the meantime do not do anything drastic. You can still run any of the other WMs. You will not be able to use any of the purly kde apps but there but there are other that can be used in their stead. Charles (-: Forever never goes beyond tomorrow. And for too many there are now no tomorrows. I Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
