On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 05:36:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions
that X or the DE fails to start?
Nothing, as long as it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Then it helps to
be able to log in to a console prompt and do
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-07-05, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 04:40:06AM -0500, Dale wrote
Grant Edwards wrote:
As long as ctrl-alt-F1 works, that's cool. It hasn't happened to me
for a while, but it didn't used to be at all difficult to get X broken
enough that ctrl-alt-F1 wouldn't work.
In that off chance, use the SysRq
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-07-04, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
100704 Dale wrote:
My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm wouldn't start.
Sort of have to have one to get to the other.
I didn't like the idea of not having my GUI either.
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.
You must have a lot of X problems to make it
On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
up on graphical logins about 15 years
100705 Grant Edwards wrote:
I had to uninstall a several dozen pkgs before revep-rebuild would work.
After libpng updated, revdep-rebuild choked
because emerge was unable to determine the order to rebuild packages.
After 2-3 hours of unstalling, revdep rebuild finally ran
and then there were
100705 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote:
You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra
steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login
on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start?
And what
On 05/07/10 17:45, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's
On 2010-07-05, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.
The reason it wouldn't load is that a
On 2010-07-05, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
up on graphical logins about 15 years
On 2010-07-04, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
Run lafilefixer --justfixit and then revdep-rebuild -v -i. You may have to
rinse and repeat more than once.
I had to uninstall a several dozen packages before revep-rebuild would
work. After libpng updated, revdep-rebuild choked becuase
On 2010-07-04, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
100704 Dale wrote:
My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm wouldn't start.
Sort of have to have one to get to the other.
I didn't like the idea of not having my GUI either.
That's why I stopped using a GUI
On 06/30/2010 02:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
aka the dark underside of source-based systems :-)
Anyone who uses gentoo had better get an erotic thrill out of filing
bug reports, or better yet, a patch that makes into portage, or more
erotic still, a patch that makes it into upstream.
I'm now
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