Had to reinstall Mandriva after trying to run evil

[Guest nortononsax]

I've been working to get Mandriva 2008.0 and all of it's apps running 100% and was 99% there until I tried to boot evilwm. Then everything started freezing right after the boot screen (Got a steady "_" on a black screen after the "Booting Mandriva" screen). When I tried to boot in safe mode there was no GUI, just a promt. If I put in "init 4", Mandriva would boot, but again to a promt-- no GUI.

 

I assume it was just trying over and over to boot in evilwm and I just couldn't get to the login screen to tell it to boot in KDE, but I'm not sure. Had to reinstall so I could post this! What could I have done to save my OS?!

[ianw1974]

A bit difficult to tell really after a reinstall. However, something to look for normally is that if the GUI isn't starting, it's probably a misconfiguration of xorg that has caused it. Either that, or it was a problem with evilwm.

 

So, reconfiguring xorg from the command line could have helped, or alternatively, if that didn't, then chances are just changing your window manager from evilwm to Gnome/KDE or whatever might have got it back up and running again.

[neddie]

just changing your window manager from evilwm to Gnome/KDE or whatever might have got it back up and running again.

I assume that's what nortononsax is asking, how to do that from the command prompt...

I don't know either, sorry!

[ffi]

vote for/ comment on: https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=39642

I went to single user mode (safe mode) in the (grub) boot menu

init 4

startkde

and disable autologin from mcc

select kde next time in the kde login screen

(uninstall evilwm, it' s not needed except for the mdv installer)

Edited April 16, 2008 by ffi