Carlos E. R. wrote:
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The Saturday 2008-09-20 at 17:10 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
I use SuSE 9.1. I had a very hard freeze when trying to read a .bmp file and when I rebooted I had no X. In fact, I could not start X on either my Fedora partition or my SuSE partition (I had problems like this once before, and it seemed to be caused by the monitor being auto-scanned).
Be that as it may, I got the Fedora partition working but I cannot get the SuSE partition working. I managed to get X started on SuSE but when KDE tries to start, it says "no write access to /root/.ICEauthority" I have no such file (but it exists on the Fedora partition).
Can someone give me a pedestrian list of steps that I need to do with the 9.1 CD to fix this without trashing my data?
Check the logs. It will be something like "X*" or "x*" in /var/logs/ or home.
Or instead of trying runlevel 5, use runlevel 3, and use "startx" instead as user: it will dump errors into the text terminal.
While I was waiting for the list to respond, I put the 9.1 CD in and poked around for awhile, having YAST look at things. Finally, after your post, I rebooted, expecting to look for the log files. But KDE started (and the file /root/.ICEauthority has reappeared). So I have no idea what happened. Thanks -- Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey@earthlink.net "I'd Rather Be Sailing" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org