Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
Therefore X was messed up ... how come ? It worked
fine up to the night before. I turned off the computer
in the end of my working session.
An update could be the culprit.
In short I had to reinstall SuSE 10.3 which fixed the
problem. But the serious difficulty was to save three
directories where I have all my recent developments. I
thought through knoppix I could mount both the
internal and external hard drive and make copies.
Apparently knoppix mounts the peripherals in a
read-only mode (???) so .. forget about it.
No, it does to protect users, but right-click a drive
on the desktop and choose the option to make them writable.
Fortunately I have a web site on a remote server. So
from the simple text- mode I could compress and ftp my
directories to my web site from which I could recover
them after reinstalling SuSE 10.3
As a consequence I fell behind my schedule. To prevent
future emergencies I am thinking of getting another
laptop/notebook.
You are right, if you depend on your computer,
you need a backup computer at the ready.
Kind regards Philippe
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