Richard Salts wrote:
> How can I get Mandrake while in KDE back up again after everything on
> screen is suddenly paralyzed? How that came about I don't know but I
> was trying to resize the 'Settings' menu dialog box of 'Kmail' when
> all froze and I knew of nothing else to do but to turn computer off
> and turn it back on again. Well, there seems to be additional problems
> because the GUI couldn't come up and I got a few error msgs. Don't
> know but what I might have to reinstall again. Just want to know so if
> there is something I can do when all on the screen freezes up again I
> might better know what to do. Thanks for any guidance. Richard
Y'know, your longest wrapped paragrraph is quite wide when you send it
out in htmal and I read it in plain text.
Please Please turn off the HTML in your posts
OK if you get a freeze
ctrl-alt-f2 will get you to a console mode login screen
You can login as root and run the command
# ps ax
And you may be able to see (from the letter D next to the process) which
process or processes died. Usually it will be kfm or kwm
As an example, consider kwm
# killall -HUP kwm
may get it running again. Check by ctrl-alt-f7
If not, ctrl-alt-f2 goes back to the console and you can type
# shutdown -r now
Which will reboot and clear the problem.
For a quick, "I'm terribly frustrated and on the edge" solution,
ctrl-alt-f2, ctrl-alt-del shuts down and reboots safely.
OK if you dropped out with a reset, try this
1. When fsck bombs, enter the root password
2.
# e2fsck -c /dev/hdaW
where W is whatever dropped you out, like 1, 6, etc
Once this completes
# shutdown -r now
should allow you a "normal" restart
Those freezes happen with kernel 2.2.9-19 and in root KDE with
2.2.9-27. I would suggest that you update the kernel or get 6.1, and,
of course, minimize operations as root.
Civileme
