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I have installed 10 official set everything up and a few days ago I updated everything with control centre update software. Ever since I have numerous crash messages coming up re Kconquer etc and I have lost system out of the menu, I have also become stuck in init 3 -though this may have happened when I installed the Nvidia drivers. The installation works but I cannot login as gnome etc and I would like to be able to get System back so I can configure desktop etc. Any ideas?

 

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Wow.

 

First, boot and login. su to root and use your favorite editor to edit the /etc/X11/XF86Config file to use the "nv" driver. This will get you back to your gui without having to trouble shoot the nvidia just yet. Do that first and then let's try to take one problem specifically at a time.

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Find the following section, toward the bottom:

Section "Device"
   Identifier "device1"
   VendorName "NVidia"
   BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce FX (generic)"
   Driver "nvidia"
   Option "DPMS"
EndSection

 

Change "nvidia" to "nv" on the driver line.

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OK.

There are two things you can do. Actually, the easiest is to edit /etc/initab.

 

Find this line

id:3:initdefault:

 

Change it to read this:

id:5:initdefault:

 

Reboot.

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Hello lxthusdan.              I think you mean      inittab.          I don't think there is a      initab.

I have made a note of the hint.              Thanks very much. :thumbs: 

Cheers.              John.

Hi Ixthusdan and AussieJohn

 

Thanks for the advice it worked a treat :thanks:

 

Now to the next step all the crash messages I get. These are along the lines "the application unknown (usually K something ge kmix etc) crashed adn caused signal 11 *SIGSEGV). I have been getting these since I either installed How to, into the menu or updated myfiles. I have also not been able to configure KDE with LookandFeel because System no longer appears in Menu.

 

Anyway thanks for the help, it is great to be able to use Windowmaker again.

 

happy hopeful :thumbs:

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OK

 

Something is borked in kde. Be certain that your updates included all depends. Did you allow the MCC update to install all updates including the depends?

 

Another thing to try is check if it's not something in your user kde fle In /home/yourusername, find a file .kde. (the dot hides it) Re-name the file to .kde-back, and lauch kde with your user again. It will make new pref files, and if it works, then something is wrong in your user files and not kde.

 

The fact that windwmaker works means x.org is ok. (Or x).

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Regarding missing titles in the Menu. You can fix that by opening Konsole and typing menudrake . This will open menudrake for you so you can do a menu recovery.

 

At the top left side, click on File then click on Reload System Menu.

 

You will see a little zig-zag activity and then you can close menudrake and the next time you select Menu, you should see all the apparently missing items.

 

Cheers. John.

 

Using Konsole, you can also open up KDE Control Centre for Look & Feel by simply typing kcontrol .

 

Using Konsole, you can also open up Mandrake Control Centre by simply typing mcc .

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Regarding missing titles in the Menu.  You can fix that by opening Konsole and typing    menudrake  .    This will open menudrake for you so you can do a menu recovery. 

 

At the top left side, click on File  then click on  Reload System Menu.

 

You will see a little zig-zag activity and then you can close menudrake and the next time you select Menu, you should see all the apparently missing items.

 

Cheers.                      John.

 

Using Konsole,  you can also open up KDE Control Centre for Look & Feel  by simply typing    kcontrol        .

 

Using Konsole,  you can also open up Mandrake Control Centre    by simply typing    mcc            .

 

Hi Aussiejohn

 

I tried kcontrol and got the following message

[otto@localhost otto]$ kcontrol

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/kids/ group not valid.

kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/

[otto@localhost otto]$ KCrash: Application 'kcontrol' crashing...

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".

kdecore (KIconLoader): WARNING: Icon directory /usr/share/icons/kids/ group not valid.

 

Is this any help?

 

Cheers

 

Hopeful

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If you are logging into kde as root, the root desktop does not contain icons. It is deliberate.

 

Do you have a regular user who does not have root permissions?

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