thanks! puuuh, back to life! (The mounting was clear to me, but didn't remember the details.) So it seems that I should better make changes directly to /etc/profile (as I always did in the past)? Anyway, thanks again! Oliver On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 12:23:42PM -0500, Sunny wrote:
On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann@swansea.ac.uk> wrote:
Hi,
the desktop is suddenly completely gone: It boots to the login-screen (no errors), but then upon login (normal user or root) simply the screen empties (that is, only the login-screen-background, nothing else), and nothing happens!
It was just a standard logout-login, to see whether things would be stable (apparently not).
The only system change was the addition of a file /etc/profile.local, which was a copy of /etc/profil, with the lines setting TEXINPUTS now activated.
If this addition (which is what is recommended in /etc/profile) is harmful, then I should remove that file. How to do this? I have the installation-dvd, and can activate "Rescue system": but then, how to get into the system and remove a file??
Hope somebody can help!
Boot with resque system (root). Then just mount the root file system from the HDD, and edit the file:
# mount /dev/sdXY /mnt # cd /mnt/etc ....
Where sdX is the HDD (usually its sda), and Y is the partition nr of your root partition.
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