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This morning I started my RedHat box but after I entered username and the password the screen just freezes but the mouse is working.
Well I tried to use "XFree86 -configure", but after that I tried again the same problem still there.
I check the values of "DISPLAY" and "DISPLAYMANANGER" variables both of them were empty so I set the "DISPLAY=:0" and "DISPLAYMANAGER=xdm" and exported them but nothing new.
I checked the "/etc/hosts" file cause I thought maybe the Xserver can not resolve my machine address but the file was unchanged and fine.
I wonder how this problem has happened and how can I work it out.
Not much idea really, but might try right-clicking and double clicking and middle clicking. Might be an idea to do:
top
to see what processes are running.
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