Re: X hanging the whole system at startup

2002-10-13 Thread Mariano Kamp
Jaye, thanks that does work. I am in control again. Still when the machine starts up it just completly hangs the system. Not even caps lock does work anymore. The login screen graphical appears and but doesn't accept any input. Here are the lines displayed in the lower right corner. The las

Re: X hanging the whole system at startup

2002-09-06 Thread Kent West
Mariano Kamp wrote: > Hi, > > I installed woody and after booting the machine x hangs the whole > machine (at least numlock doesn't work anymore). Is there anyway to > interrupt the startup procedure to prevent x from starting? At the "boot:" prompt, enter something like "linux single" to star

Re: X hanging the whole system at startup

2002-09-06 Thread Jeff
Mariano Kamp, 2002-Sep-06 18:00 +0200: > Hi, > > I installed woody and after booting the machine x hangs the whole > machine (at least numlock doesn't work anymore). Is there anyway to > interrupt the startup procedure to prevent x from starting? > > I am also wondering what the reason for t

X hanging the whole system at startup

2002-09-06 Thread Mariano Kamp
Hi, I installed woody and after booting the machine x hangs the whole machine (at least numlock doesn't work anymore). Is there anyway to interrupt the startup procedure to prevent x from starting? I am also wondering what the reason for that is? Issuing startx by hand does work. Does an