On Monday 08 November 2010 16:34:18 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/11/08 14:17 (GMT+0200) Stan Goodman composed:
A reboot brought the system to its present state, which is that the desktop is now up partially. The chameleon is still there, with the progress gauge (with no progress), but the upper-left quadrant is occupied by the Desktop Folder window. neither the folder nor the rest of the screen is populated.
This would seem to be progress. What I would like to do is to run fsk on sda7 again, but I am unsure how to reboot, since there is no button to do so, and I am reluctant to screw things up again by using the OFF switch. Actually, I think that switch does an orderly shutdown before removing power, but I would like to be sure.
1-Switch to 1 of your 6 virtual consoles (Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6]; e.g. Crtl-Alt-F2) 2-login as root
Fails right here. While the system was sitting here unloved, it has frozen. The mouse cursor doesn't move, and Ctrl-Alt-Fx does nothing.
3A-init 6 # reboot, or 3B-init 3 # shut down X 4-fsck /dev/sda7 # what you wish 5-init 5 # restart X
If a reboot or X restart does not fix X, try: 6-Switch to 1 of your 6 virtual consoles (Ctrl-Alt-F[1-6]; e.g. Crtl-Alt-F2) 7-login as root # if not still logged in from #2 above 8-init 3 # shut down X 9-zypper up # refreshes repos & updates installed packages to latest versions 10-init 5 # restart X 11-report back
As an alternative to #3A, reboot from root login can also be accomplished using the reboot command, or the shutdown command, both of which have man pages.
Also, telinit can be substituted for any instance above of init, which also has a man page explaining what the init/telinit numbers mean. e.g., 3 produces runlevel 3, which is full system function except for anything that requires X to work.
Any time you need to reboot while X is dysfunctional, you can prevent having X start by appending any of single, 1, 2 or 3 to the kernel line while in the Grub menu or from a Grub prompt. Then after performing repairs to the X system, init 5 will attempt to start X and bring up the GDM/KDM/XDM login screen.
To test if your window manager is working without bothering with the login screen, you can login from any of the virtual consoles as any regular user (or root if you dare), then run the command startx. Done this way if the display manager is still not producing a menu that allows you to exit, you can kill X completely with Ctrl-Alt-BS Ctrl-Alt-BS.
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