Hi Listers,
> > I am running a dual boot box (Win98 /PCQ Linux) Celeron 900 MHZ,128 MB RAM > 40 Gig HDD. > I was running Linux for the past 2 1/2 years without any problem(thru RH > 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, RH/PCQ Linux 7.1). I have configured 2 users with KDE as the > default desktop and GNOME as the desktop for root. > > Today I wanted to install "Joe" from RH 6.2 CD for doing some light weight > editing. I logged in as root (Graphical login). Instead of GNOME it went > into Failsafe mode, with only a terminal. I gave mount command. It > said"command not found". The same story was there for even simple commands > like ls, mv , cp and all. > > I could not even reboot the machine by giving reboot command in terminal. > Did ctrl + alt + del. Then I tried to login as root choosing KDE desktop. > Monitor simply blinked and came back to login screen. Went to pure CLI > using ctrl + alt + f2 and logged in as root. And that was all I could do, > that is login . Any command issued repeated the same old story " command > not found". > > Then I logged in as normal user,"srikanth". I could do all including > connecting to net, browsing, email etc. What has happened ? Can anybody > throw light on this problem? > > N S Srikanth > Trivandrum Hi Listers, Problem was solved! Yetsreday after installing java sdk 1.4 , I edited the .bash_profile and gave the path erroneously. (AS ROOT !). Today I again logged in as normal user , su'd and edited the .bash_profile, removed the offending line and now it is ok. Sorry about the bandwidth wastage N S Srikanth ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Jabber - The world's fastest growing real-time communications platform! Don't just IM. Build it in! http://www.jabber.com/osdn/xim _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
