Updated KDE 3.4/Mandriva 2006

[Guest rcurci2]

Just like the description says, My Desktop computer is booting itself to a click choice of "default or profile" selections, whichever you chose, it loads directly to a "shell screen"

 

(i'm a newbie so take it easy on me, i did search but i'm not completely oblivious to mandriva)

 

the Screen states.

 

Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Official) for i586

Kernel 2.6.12-12mdk on an i686 / tty1

localhost login:

 

Now I've logged in and tried exiting, it does nothing, the only time I can get this "shell" to do anything is from failsafe mode otherwise regular linux mode when I press enter, i insert a "^M"

 

I need to boot KDE basically. I don't knwo how to do that from shell. If there's even a way. I knwo how to remove the profile settings bc I setup a remote access to another linux machine on that computer, but default shouldn't have been modified.

 

Please god someone tell me that i can fix this without reloading kde.

[scarecrow]

What happens if you login your default user from the "shell screen" normally (not at failsafe mode) and type in

startkde

or

startx

 

If you fail to get a graphical environment, then the xserver settings aren't OK- but this isn't difficult to fix.

[Guest rcurci2]

Start X sets all kinds of errors.

 

And surprisingly, one of the fonts i just added set an error.

 

Parse error on line 12 of section files in file /etc/x11/xorg.conf (my font)

(EE) Problem parsing the config file

(ee) Error parsing the config file

 

Fatal server error:

no screens found

 

Please consult the X.org foundation support at ...

for help

 

Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.0.log" for additional information

 

XIO: fatal IO error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

 

Now i'm stuck. lol I'm waiting to hear "start over"

 

Now...

 

Start KDE on the other hand.

 

xset: unable to open display""

xset root: unable to open display ''

xmod map *

xmodmap *

startkde: starting up..

ksplash: cannont connect to X server

(knome-volume-manager:4657) GTK-WARNING **: cannot open display

 

theres like another 10 lines want me to keep going?

[scarecrow]

Nope, that's enough.

First thing to try from the "shell screen" is logging as root:

Then providing the root password (I hope you remember it...) and trying to configure the xserver from there:

mcc

This will open an administration program in text mode. You have to navigate via your keyboard arrows to the display module, and set there your screen resolution+videocard.

[Guest rcurci2]

Actually that didn't work, it had everything set. It was a stupid mistake on my part adding a font for a widget that i was told i Needed (not the widget, the font said it was needed to use the widget which was a crock of crap, i inserted it in the xorg.conf file incorrectly. Once i repaired that problem, i headed over to "startX" again and it loaded perfectly

 

However. Now once KDE started under my user name (not root) I get an error message saying ...

 

" The Following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:

Temp directory (/tmp) is out of disk space.

KDE is unable to start"

 

With a fresh 80gb hard drive, nothing should be out of space. what'd i do here?

[scarecrow]

First, get sure that you have a swap partition, and that its active.

Anyway, a swap partition isn't strictly necessary in systems with plenty of physical RAM- just check if you have something like that in your /etc/fstab configuration file:

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

Edited July 17, 2006 by scarecrow

[Steve Scrimpshire]

What is the output of

 

df -a

 

once you get logged in?