Re: [opensuse] Losing my mind? Or just my system?

----- Original Message ---- From: Evens Garde ... Simon Roberts wrote:

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One of my (main) logins has freaked out. When I try to login, I now get a totally black screen.

I've tried replacing the .gnome2/session file with the default, but that didn't change anything.

I "didn't do anything" that I can imagine might have caused this, but other users can login, and even with my main login in this state, I can change VTs, login as root, or other users. I can see a bunch of processes running in my user's name, and if I kill the session, I get back to a login screen again.

Aside from .gnome2/session, what might be running a rogue process

----- Original Message ---- From: Evens Garde ... Simon Roberts wrote: that could cause this?

Log out from all GUI logins Login on a terminal (character) screen (like, ctrl-alt-F3) then to this command mv .gnome2 .gnome2.old logout

use ctrl-alt-F7 to get back to the GUI screen login

everything should work. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The way things are going lately, I sadly admit that I'm not really suprised that this actually didn't change anything :(

Thanks for trying, I appreciate it.

Anyone have any other thoughts?

Yes: What did you do to your system? -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I changed /etc/sysconfig/yast2 so that the software installer would run under qt instead of gdk. I used that installer to (ostensibly) replace 64bit firefox with 32bit firefox. I restarted the system And for once, I can say that's "all" with a remarkable degree of confidence, because I was working on that specific problem and nothing else. Sigh, I think I'm going to reinstall and use the 32bit system from the start this time. That only leaves me one immediate problem. Thanks for trying so hard everyone, it's much appreciated. Cheers, Simon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org