griptypethyne Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 I have got myself into a mess. I am running 9.2 with KDE. From KDE I entered ctrl-altF1 t o go to the text terminal. The problem was I could not work out how to get back to KDE from the terminal so I re-booted. Mandrake came up with the text screen again. I couild not login as user but was able to login as root. I entered KDE and got into the GUI as root. When I went to K menu -> Logout I was given only two options Logout and Cancel. I could not log in as user. I went to the Control Center and checked that my user still existed. I Also check the home directory and all my fles are stil accessible. I had no trouble running Firefox, importing my bookmarks and logging on to the net. I suspect that the solution is simple; probably exiting from the text terminal correctly. Any help would be appreciated. [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 ctrl+alt+F7 would have taken you back to the GUI, for future reference. login to KDE as root again, and go into Mandrake Control Center -> System -> Services and look for "dm" and make sure it's set to "on boot" Also go into MCC -> System (or hardware, depending on your version) -> Display Manager and select one of them and click any boxes you see regarding "on boot" (but not any auto-login stuff, unless you want that). I think this should fix your problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griptypethyne Posted June 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 I went to e control center -> system -> services. dm was not running and boot was not enabled so I clicked it. I went to system -> Display Manager. KDE was selected. There were no "on boot" or any other boxes. I logged out and re-booted. It has not fixed the problem. From the terminal screen I tried ctr+alt+f7 and went to a blank screen with the cirsron at the top left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
griptypethyne Posted June 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 I should have added that after I re-boot and get to the terminal screen I can login as a user. Everything seems to be working as it should except for the login manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 to quote a previous post of mine (in a different thread): aight, here we go...Mandrake Control Center -> Boot -> Autologin check the "Launch your graphical environment when your system starts" box, and if you don't want to automitically login then obviously select that radio button. try that route. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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