On Monday 04 November 2002 23:32, ZephyrQ wrote:
First, the problem. Due to a glitch/powersurge/young-un kicking the case (I'm not sure which) I lost my ability to go into X.
/hello/. Probably you didn't want comments on this, but if a glitch/powersurge/young-un_really did_ fry your X installation, you have worse problems than that, because it means some damage was caused to your hard drive.
NVidia drivers AND turned off (I thought) the graphical login (I do NOT like it, never have, and yast2 didn't give me a choice...).
Unfortunately in yast you ahve to change more than on thing. I forget which, but the *real* thing to do is edit /etc/inittab and change: id:5:initdefault: to: id:3:initdefault:
System was fine until the next day when I turned the machine on and it FROZE AT THE GRAPHICAL LOGIN THAT I HAD TURNED OFF!!!
Yup. Because Yast2 under 8.0 oes NOT diable {k|x|g}dm
So, now, the questions.
1. Is there a key-press sequence I can use to bypass/turn-off the graphical login before it comes up?
No but it's running in virtual console 7, so even if it comes up you shoudl be able to switch to another with [CTRL]+[ALT]+[F1] or F2, F3, ....
2. Am I missing anything in the settings to cause these lock-ups? The new NVidia drivers worked well for 3 months but now are costing me *way* too much time . Have you looked at /var/log/message?
How about stracing startx to see where it dies? Hint: strace -f -s100 -o x.strace.log startx
3. Is there any way I can get my Yast1 back? Yast2, while slick and pretty, doesn't allow me to abort to a prompt (to fix problems) and hides too many things.
No, but one of the best things about 8.1 is that yast is a good bit better (though it's not all the way there yet).
4. Finally, what could I have done to streamline this process initially? The initial problem seemed to be in a /tmp/lock* file--could I have just deleted the /tmp directory?
su - init 1 (or at least be sure to init 3. If you go with 3, shut down all running rcservices) cd /tmp rm -rf * init 3 -- ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson System Administrator Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com