Halt command.

imperil · 02-28-2005, 04:07 PM

I logged out of my session and then instead of loggin in again I pressed halt. Now my linux partition opens in a console mode and doesnt even ask in which gui i want to log in.
Can someone help? I'm completely ignorant of linux, just installed mandrake 10.1 a couple of days ago.

whited · 02-28-2005, 05:12 PM

If your at a command line try startx

imperil · 02-28-2005, 05:20 PM

I get a

Fatal server error: could not open default font 'fixed'
XIO: fatal IO error 104(Connection reset by peer) on X server after 0 requests with 0 events remaining

opjose · 03-01-2005, 03:13 AM

It sounds like you are in init 1 mode.

The system stops there in case it needs to fsck the drive(s).

If you see a prompt, but not a login prompt... (e.g. a # sign) hit CTRL-C which should continue the boot or give you more errors.

Report back.

imperil · 03-01-2005, 07:42 AM

The hd I have mandrake installed on was full (100%) so I just erased some unecessary things and now its ok.
Obviously it has nothing to do with the halt command I just combined the problem with it because I had never used it before and when I did this happened.