On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 4:11 pm, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 8:42 am, James Sparenberg wrote:
> > If you run startx from runlevel 3 ... what does it give you as
> > the reason for not starting?
>
> There are no error messages.  KDE is obviously trying to start up. 
> I hear the .wav file, and bits of the display flash on screen then
> off again.  Then the watch cursor stays on screen for a long time,
> and finally starts alternating between the watch and the arrow.
>
> I don't know how to get out of this apart from powering down.
>
OK - I remembered the ctrl-alt-backspace and shutdown from there.  
Failsafe shows exactly the same symptoms as the main install.

Anne
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