someone please help! iv kinda killed linux!

roddyguk · 10-13-2005, 01:12 PM

please help me.

iv just tried installing wine, rebooted my pc and now when its finished loading up all i get is a login prompt!

what have i done?

im running simple mepis 3.3 (off the cd at the mo!)

linux.llama · 10-13-2005, 01:27 PM

Hey
what kind of a login prompt? localhost: or grub> ?
And how did you install wine?

roddyguk · 10-13-2005, 01:50 PM

not quite sure what grub is!? (only been using linux since the weekend)

i think its a localhost login, i can login with either of my users and the root.

i installed wine from synaptic just after changing the repositories

synaptic wasn't working properly so i found a source.list on a forum someware (think it was mepislovers)

when i started to download and install wine it had a good hour or so of download time on it and i got an 4mb connection! (i did think it was a bit weird that it would take so long)

roddyguk · 10-13-2005, 02:12 PM

when i say i can login with user and root i mean, im still at a prompt but it asks for a login then a password, but still leaves me at a prompt where i can type commands.

dracolich · 10-13-2005, 02:45 PM

You're booting into runlevel 3. That's multiuser mode with commandline login. I guess you were probably using a graphical login before, runlevel 5. That's easily changed in the bootloader's config. But if that's not the problem it could be your graphical login program (kdm or gdm) is moved or corrupt. After logging in as root try one or both of those commands and see if they work.

Eerath · 10-13-2005, 03:15 PM

The MEPIS repos are a bit... odd... at the moment, doing strange things. I would suggest...

apt-get install xserver-xorg

The problems you are having happened to me when I updated last, and re-installing the X server seemed to do the trick.

Welcome to Linux by the way

roddyguk · 10-13-2005, 03:25 PM

cheers dracolich for ur suggestion.
i tryed kdm and gdm when loged in but nether of them done anything.

Eerath. will i have to run any more commands after iv run apt-get install xserver-xorg? or will it sort itself out?

Eerath · 10-13-2005, 03:34 PM

Once you have typed (you have to run the "su" command and type your root password first) "apt-get install xserver-xorg" it will check the repos for the package you have specified. Once it has found it, it will ask you whether or not it's OK to use the additional [however many]KB of disk space. Once you have told it that that will be OK, it downloads and installs it for you. Once it has been installed it will run a quick text-based setup program which should present no problems. After all this is done type and you are back to the main login (which should still be root), and type "reboot". Hopefully X should be back!

roddyguk · 10-13-2005, 03:55 PM

nice 1 m8 uv sorted it! ur a diamond!

just a couple of questions tho,

should i change my repositories so i dont do this again?

am i using a different version of mepis now? at the login screen it said "welcome to debian at mepis 1" and looks alot better (icons, kde, ect)

and also it wont let me login as root! whats the deal there?

Eerath · 10-14-2005, 12:18 PM

I wouldn't recommend changing any repos, if the standard ftp.debian.org ones work OK, just stick to them.

The reason wine took 4 hours to download will be becuse you were downloading all of the updates for MEPIS with it. This is why it took so long, and why MEPIS now looks better. You were upgrading to KDE 3.4 aswell as installing wine.

Where won't it let you login as root? Konsole or at the login screen?