On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 00:37, ThinKer wrote:
I just ran the installation again to see if maybe something had messed up in the transisiton from the FTP server. I got the same result, however,
1. I was able to type 'ctrl+alt+f2' and get a shell, at which I typed 'ls' and got ...
bin boot content dev etc kdb lib lib64 linuxrc linuxrc.config media mnt modules mounts oldroot opt proc root sbin tmp usr var
2. when I type 'ctrl+alt+f6' I get ...
XFree 86 Version 4.3.0 Release Date: 27 February 2003 x Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE Build Date: 29 March 2003 Could not init font path element /usr/x11R6/lib/X11/fonts/URW/, removing from list!
Any suggestions?
The grey background with the little clock you mentioned is X trying to start up. Unfortunately, the above isn't a really good error message, it just means that X couldn't find a font directory, which I wouldn't think would cause it to just hang. The best I can think of is switching to ctrl-alt-f10, where the system log messages are printed, and seeing if there are any of relevance