Trio3b Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Uh oh! Newb may have just broken MDK 10.0 Linux. During install I configured with LILO to autoload KDE 3.2 desktop. Everything has been fine until.........Yesterday accidently shutoff power . Now during boot, something about loopback interface.....CUPS may not work properly. Then it only boots to '-bash' , which I believe is a shell. Then I need to log in under localhost.........then I need to log in as root.........then I need to enter 'KDE'..... only then do I get my desktop. Then when I want out, I can only log out of the session. There is no option to shutdown the PC from KDE. I have to reenter the shell...and then 'shutdown -h now' . This is obviously not going to work over the long haul. If I damaged these files.......who knows what else? This is my practice Linux PC. I don't have any important files. Need advice about this: I can only devote a limited time to learn about checking the filesystem and fixing it. OR ....I can reload the OS in about 30 min. What would you do? Thanks for any help [moved from Installing Mandrake by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Try rebooting and from the prompt, type init 5 If your graphical environment starts up you need to just tell Mandrake what runlevel you want to go up too. It may be putting you in init 1 - 3 (all non-graphical). If it works, you need to make it permanent. Edit your /etc/inittab to change the runlevel. Do a search on runlevel /etc/inittab to find similar examples. My linux system is down right now otherwise I would tell you how to edit the file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aRTee Posted February 17, 2005 Report Share Posted February 17, 2005 Go to the menu, configure your computer, and look around in the boot stuff - there should be some options there too that will allow you to boot to graphics mode without passing by the non-graphics part. Just set it up to give you the graphical login - in that way, in case something is wrong with your account, you can login to another (it's always good to have a guest account or so) and try if things work there. With the MandrakeControlCenter you can also create a new user. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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