What happens when you type `startx` on the command line? It should output
/some/ error atleast, not matter how small, it still is helpfully.
Also have you maybe consider UPS?
Jack
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Salts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 1:04 PM
Subject: electrical failures
> From time to time it happens unexpedly. The power to one's home or
> business fails while Linux, if used at either place is running. Suddenly,
> when the power fails and Linux is extinguished, it's a difficult thing to
> bring it back up again. Especially when it is searching for things and
> cannot find them.
>
> I'm having that trouble now with Linux-Mandrake 6.0. So far I've run it
> about five times and cannot get the GUI up and going. It will get me into
> the console but that's all. I try to run fsck but nothing happens. It
> seems that a bunch of things are missing, corrupted or what. I just don't
> know and I _do_not_ want to have to go through an another installation.
>
> Is there anything I can do to correct matters or something short of a
> complete reinstall?
>
>
>
> Thanks for any guidance
>
> Richard
>
>
