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Running SuSe 10.1 on laptop. It wont revert to GUI, just stays in command line mode (whats wrong with that, I hear you say ! ). I am a newbie and not yet c l competant.
I tried Ctrl+Alt+F7, it gave me nothing.
I then tried ps -ef/grep X , it says "Unsupported SysV option"
It worked before, what have I s.....d up ?
Running startx puts me straight into the GUI (great !)
But, the only way I can shut down the machine is to Ctrl+Alt+Dlt and before it reboots switch off, i.e. I cannot switch off from the GUI. When switching on again I have to go the startx route to get into the GUI, it doesn't do it automatically.
Amysifuma, regret neither of your suggestions does anything other than "command not recognised".
I have just updated to SuSe 10.2 (not a clean install but just update ) but this has made no difference.
Any ideas ?
Took the easy option. Downloaded everything onto a memory-stick, and installed new distro (linux mint)
Works great, much quicker than SuSe, but then it is a light distro, more suited to laptop
Thanks for your suggestions
all that problem normaly means is that it is set to boot into runleverl 3 instead of 5, this will hapen with suse if the graphical insatller diddnt work and you were left with the curses one.
there is a config file you can change that will make it boot directly to GUI (then you would be able to shut down)
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