Installed SUSE v9.3 -- Good News and Disaster
As the subject line says, I've installed v9.3 -- I repartitioned the disk and installed from scratch, rather than on top of the v9.1. The Good News is that v9.3 is much snappier than v9.1; one can live with it. I still intend to replace the 350MHz CPU with 800MHz, because some apps I want to install need a bit more speed, but I think I will be happy without crossing the 1GHz barrier, or getting more modern HD. I have gone on line with it, using Firefox, and am pleased. The only changes I made were in some Firefox preferences, and changing the mouse to the left-handed persuasion and a different cursor.. Whatever I did or didn't do, the system is now inoperable. When it boots, the mouse is not frozen in the center of the screen. Its buttons also do nothing. The only way I could shut the system down (twice) was with the Reset button. Perhaps there was a way with the keyboard, but I don't know it. I was able to bring up a Process List (but I'm not sure how I did that; repeatedly pressing the Tab key moved the focus from field to field, so apparently the keyboard was operational. How do I get out of this fix? The last time it booted, I watched the detailed progress on the screen. I saw nothing tht looked suspicious, except one Warning at the time when the network was being set up. I couldn't read it, and of course I can't look at the boot log. I assume that I need to boot to the Fail Safe option, which I understand to be a command-line mode. I am very new at this OS, and would much appreciate some pointers about how to go about diagnosing what is hanging the mouse and how to repair it. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel "When your enemy falls, do not rejoice." -- Proverbs 24:17 Now that European currencies are superceded by the Euro, will all European banks become Eurinals?
Stan Goodman wrote:
How do I get out of this fix?
The last time it booted, I watched the detailed progress on the screen. I saw nothing tht looked suspicious, except one Warning at the time when the network was being set up. I couldn't read it, and of course I can't look at the boot log.
I assume that I need to boot to the Fail Safe option, which I understand to be a command-line mode. I am very new at this OS, and would much appreciate some pointers about how to go about diagnosing what is hanging the mouse and how to repair it.
Start the computer in run level 3. Then, as root, run SAX2. You can make all the mouse & video changes there.
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:14 am, James Knott wrote:
Stan Goodman wrote:
How do I get out of this fix?
I am very new at this OS, and would much appreciate some pointers about how to go about diagnosing what is hanging the mouse and how to repair it.
Start the computer in run level 3. Then, as root, run SAX2. You can make all the mouse & video changes there.
Just to spell this out, when you see the GRUB boot screen, "Booting Linux in 8 seconds", type a 3 into the parameters box. This or booting the failsafe system will give you a simple command line login. Runlevel 3 is what servers boot to, the networking and services are all up but the (memory hogging) graphical interface hasn't started. That fires up in runlevel 5, (there usually isn't a runlevel 4). Log in as "root". Until you have this problem sorted out, it is probably a good idea to make 3 the default runlevel. Edit /etc/inittab and change the 5 to a 3 here: # The default runlevel is defined here id:5:initdefault: Now it will not boot into trouble next time. As suggested, run sax2 to configure the graphical system, graphics card, monitor, mouse, keyboard, etc. Having run sax2, type "startx". If it works, well and good, end the session (Suse - Logout) and type "init 5" when you get back to the command line. If it doesn't; type Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. It's the Ctrl-Alt-Del of X and will crash you back to the command line. Once you are happy it's working, put "5" back as the default runlevel. Let us know how you go, michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166 No matter how much you pay for software, you always get less than you hoped. Unless you pay nothing, then you get more.
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