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Just like the description says, My Desktop computer is booting itself to a click choice of "default or profile" selections, whichever you chose, it loads directly to a "shell screen"
(i'm a newbie so take it easy on me, i did search but i'm not completely oblivious to mandriva)
the Screen states.
Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.12-12mdk on an i686 / tty1
localhost login:
Now I've logged in and tried exiting, it does nothing, the only time I can get this "shell" to do anything is from failsafe mode otherwise regular linux mode when I press enter, i insert a "^M"
I need to boot KDE basically. I don't knwo how to do that from shell. If there's even a way. I knwo how to remove the profile settings bc I setup a remote access to another linux machine on that computer, but default shouldn't have been modified.
Please god someone tell me that i can fix this without reloading kde.
I Also just tried startkde and got a crap load of graphical errors, I made 2 threads, this one on this forum and one on the Mandriva forum. Seems a guy there says it's not to difficult to repair graphical errors.
Distribution: Xubuntu 9.10, Gentoo 2.6.27 (AMD64), Darwin 9.0.0 (arm)
Posts: 1,152
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Post the "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" file this will give more details on the exact error.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
This usually means that xorg.conf isn't configured properly. has it ever booted into KDE or has it been like this since you installed linux? If it used to boot kde what did you change?
Post the line you added also. Check if it is mistyped. For this run 'mcedit /etc/xorg.conf', if you have mc installed (rather likely).
I'll just remove the line, it was for a Widget that is not very important enough to live without KDE lol
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnson_steve
Post the "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" file this will give more details on the exact error.
Fatal server error:
no screens found
This usually means that xorg.conf isn't configured properly. has it ever booted into KDE or has it been like this since you installed linux? If it used to boot kde what did you change?
I was running in KDE for a while until i messed with things (typical uneducated linux user i guess ) lol
the exact error is
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Parse error on line 12 of section Files in file /etc/X11/xorg.conf
"/usr/share/fonts/artwiz-aleczapka-en-1.3" is not a valid keyword in this section.
(ee) problem parsing the config file
(ee) error parsing the config file
It seems i'll be back online. Thank you guys for basically giving me the commands necessary to get everything going.
I didn't know any of the commands, i needed both the help from you guys and wiki.x.org and the first answer on the how-to is to point the FontPath in the right direction.
I just have to figure out how to get KDE to auto start now.
If you mean so your system boots to a graphical login, rather than a text based one, then you just need to change the default runlevel. This can be done by editing /etc/inittab and changing the 3 to a 5 in the following line "id:3:initdefault:". 5 is the runlevel for a GUI in most distros, but check what the comments say at the top of the file (usually there's a list of the runlevels and what they're for).
If you mean so your system boots to a graphical login, rather than a text based one, then you just need to change the default runlevel. This can be done by editing /etc/inittab and changing the 3 to a 5 in the following line "id:3:initdefault:". 5 is the runlevel for a GUI in most distros, but check what the comments say at the top of the file (usually there's a list of the runlevels and what they're for).
This is good information
I thought i was done, "KDE" started for user Root. But not for my main user.
I get an error message.
" The Following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:
Temp directory (/tmp) is out of disk space.
KDE is unable to start"
With a fresh 80gb hard drive, nothing should be out of space. what'd i do here?
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