Dear Civilme:
Thanks so very much for your suggestion. Will take a look at the
situation when I back in Linux (using dual Linux-Windows. My Linux is
Mandrake 7.0.
Thanks again.
Civileme wrote:
>
> Benjamin Sher wrote:
> >
> > Dear friends:
> >
> > For some unknown reason, the StartX in the Console keeps hanging forever
> > instead of taking me directly to KDE, as it usually does. I have tried
> > for the past hour doing a soft reboot, then a cold reboot (disconnecting
> > the system), Cnt + C, then retyping the command on the new prompt line.
> > I made sure that my printer is off when booting, etc. Nothing works. The
> > StartX command, after being typed, just hangs forever. I tried the same
> > thing as root. Same thing happens as user or as root. The StartX command
> > is in /usr/X11R6/bin/StartX. I have had a problem with the Startx
> > command on occasion before, but now it just won't work under any
> > circumstances.
> >
> > Would appreciate if someone could troubleshoot this.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> > Benjamin
> > --
> > Benjamin and Anna Sher
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sher's Russian Web
> > http://www.websher.net
>
> Just guessing, if it is 7.0-2, likely your font server is dead.
> The font server makes a couple of symlinks to files in
> directories in /tmp (very weak idea--nowadays they use /root/tmp
> in hydrogen), and if you executed some process which wiped /tmp,
> you may have physically deleted the files the symlinks point to.
> The solution is to reinstall X... Very little else should be
> perturbed.
>
> and I do mean reinstall
>
> rpm -q XF* to locate the packages
> and
> rpm -e to remove them
>
> Maybe someone else has an easier way, but I have never sorted
> through the tangle of script and code to find one.
>
> Civileme
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