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Hey Guys. I must admit that I am a "newbie" to Linux. I have, however, used and loved UNIX at the console for years (via telnet/ssh). I finally decided I wanted Unix power on my PC. That's why I got SuSE 9.1. Now, the console on Linux is everything I could hope for (and btw the linux version of "vi" is REALLY well done!) But this desktop thing is quite another story. I have found KDE to be extremely buggy and Gnome simply quit working.
Whenever I try to login into a GNOME session, it gives me a message about a gnome daemon being restarted too many times. I click "close" and while the mouse cursor continues to work, the system seems essentially locked up. So, I have had to reboot several times. This is very disturbing to me as this is exactly what I wanted to avoid b/c I was so sick of WinXP doing things like that.
Now, I realize I should have written down the EXACT error message before posting this..but even if no one knows what to do about the particular error, do you at least know a way (a keystroke, anything) to shut GNOME down and get me either back to the login screen or directly to the console?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, and thank you for such a well-run forum. Very refreshing in a day of flames and filth and whatever.
Thanks again!
SuSExplorer
PS: Regarding my post above, I should also add that this error suddenly started ocurring AFTER I had already been able to login to GNOME without any problem. Also, I have never touched any config files and I don't even login as root.
Actually, SuSE 9.1 install disk has very pleasant feature - self repair. when I had SuSE I used this utility quite often. And it's easy too. Just reboot with install disk inside->installation->repair installed->auto
Always worked
Hi I am a serious newbie too, I can't seem to figure out how to get my computer to boot into Gnome. What is iti that I am not doing?
Thanks for any advice.
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