On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 01:38:11AM -0700, Thankachan Biju wrote:
> try using CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE, it should get u out of X
>
> thankachan
> --- Amit Bhargava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > This is a typical problem, on the brand new installed
> > server, when I run in the normal mode (text mode)
> > everything runs fine but when switch to GNOME, then
> > I am displayed a warning that I am running as root
> > and my machine machine hangs, and I have to hardboot,
> > not even the Ctrl-Alt-Delete combi,is able to restore
> > back to text mode.
> >
> > Amit Bhargava
> >
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Sorry to be jumping into the middle of the thread. AFAIK
this problem can only arise in RH system because default
compilation in RH discourages use of gnome as root. The
wm should run on, but there appears to be some sort of
problem which is not permitting it to run on.
Can you run gnome normally as an user ?
In any case, do NOT hard boot.
1. Log into another terminal [Alt-Fn] or [Ctrl-Alt-Fn]
as root.
2. Do ps -ae | less
3. Check for all numbers for anything to do with gnome,
X or any X app. Note these nos down ...
4. Kill all these processes manually with command:
kill no ( or kill -9 no, if that fails)
5. You will be back to console on the original tty.
6. Do a normal shutdown after that.
Logical solution:
1. Do NOT use GUI for any root job. There is no need!
I have not used GUI as root for last 5 years.
2. In case GUI is mandatory, run fvwm2, blackbox or
any light weight wm (no KDE/ gnome). AFAIK, in RH
these are not customised so heavily.
Permanent solution:
Difficult to say ... could be software or hardware (if
same problem is being faced as user). Post the output
of "startx" and lets see if there are any clues there.
See LOST tip below regarding how to get an output.
Bish
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Sub : Capturing startx output LOST #008
To capture output of startx to a file for study later ..
$startx 1>startx.log 2>&1
... This will dump a bunch of text to the file "startx.log"
$less startx.log ... to view the results.
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