Arsenic wrote:
> OK, so now I'm feeling really bloody stupid. I looked in the logs (that
> I could find... there is no syslog in /var/log, or am I just missing
> something that's painfully obvious here?) and I couldn't see anything.
> I mean, I'm not a whiz when it comes to reading such things, so maybe I
> just don't know what I'm supposed to look for but there was nothing in
> there that leapt out at me and said "this isn't working". It's
> frustrating me... I'm sure there must be some way to pin down exactly
> where sh!t is going wrong but I don't know how.
OK. The file is probably not called syslog, but it's some kind of log
in that directory or one of the subdirectories. The thing is that I
don't know which system logger you're using, so I can't say specifically
what the file would be called.
> Oh, the keymap thing, I read about and frankly, I'm happy to ignore it
> coz it doesn't really affect my ability to use the computer but this x
> thing is really starting to irritate me, along with the fact that I
> can't access the net when i boot from the new kernel (and I'm no closer
> to knowing why).
I just realized part of the problem. When you boot to a graphical
login, you're not booting into X. You're booting into something like
GDM or XDM or some other display manager. When you login there, it
starts X for you. When you log in via a text login, you work around
that software. Therein lies your problem. I still don't know why it's
hanging up, but that's at least what is hanging up.
> It just doesn't seem to make any sense... I set default runlevel to 5
> and reboot - I choose the new kernel and all I get is a big X in the
> middle of a blank screen... I set the default runlevel to 3 and reboot -
> choose the new kernel, start x manually and it works and I can initiate
> the internet connection but then i can't do anything with it, even as
> root.
The internet connection can be a litany of things. What does ifconfig
tell you when run as root? Is the hardware not being detected? What
adapter are you using?
I hope you haven't given up...
Chad Martin
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