On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 04:40:06AM -0500, Dale wrote
> Grant Edwards wrote:
> >
> > As long as ctrl-alt-F1 works, that's cool. It hasn't happened to me
> > for a while, but it didn't used to be at all difficult to get X broken
> > enough that ctrl-alt-F1 wouldn't work.
>
> In that off chance, use
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-07-05, Dale wrote:
Grant Edwards wrote:
The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.
The reason it wouldn
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010 05:36:47 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > What's wrong with dropping back to a text login on the odd occasions
> > that X or the DE fails to start?
>
> Nothing, as long as it works. Sometimes it doesn't. Then it helps to
> be able to log in to a console prompt and do s
On 2010-07-05, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
>> log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
>> up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.
>
> Y
On 2010-07-05, Dale wrote:
> Grant Edwards wrote:
>> The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
>> log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
>> up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.
>
> The reason it wouldn't load is that a LOT of package
On 05/07/10 17:45, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>>
>>> The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
>>> log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working
100705 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> You must have a lot of X problems to make it worth the hassle of the extra
>> steps each you boot up. What's wrong with dropping back to a text login
>> on the odd occasions that X or the DE fails to start?
> And
100705 Grant Edwards wrote:
> I had to uninstall a several dozen pkgs before revep-rebuild would work.
> After libpng updated, revdep-rebuild choked
> because emerge was unable to determine the order to rebuild packages.
> After 2-3 hours of unstalling, revdep rebuild finally ran
> and then there w
On Monday 05 July 2010 09:39:50 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> > The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
> > log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
> > up on graphical logins about 15
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:12:44 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
> The point is that if you always start with a text login, it's easy to
> log in and fix whatever keeps X/KDE from working. That's why I gave
> up on graphical logins about 15 years ago.
You must have a lot of X problems to make it wo
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2010-07-04, Dale wrote:
Philip Webb wrote:
100704 Dale wrote:
My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm wouldn't start.
Sort of have to have one to get to the other.
I didn't like the idea of not having my GUI either.
That's why I stop
On 2010-07-04, Dale wrote:
> Philip Webb wrote:
>> 100704 Dale wrote:
>>
>>> My KDE wouldn't start either. Actually, kdm wouldn't start.
>>> Sort of have to have one to get to the other.
>>> I didn't like the idea of not having my GUI either.
>>>
>> That's why I stopped using a GUI logi
On 2010-07-04, Mick wrote:
> Run lafilefixer --justfixit and then revdep-rebuild -v -i. You may have to
> rinse and repeat more than once.
I had to uninstall a several dozen packages before revep-rebuild would
work. After libpng updated, revdep-rebuild choked becuase emerge was
unable to dete
On 06/30/2010 02:52 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
aka the dark underside of source-based systems :-)
Anyone who uses gentoo had better get an erotic thrill out of filing
bug reports, or better yet, a patch that makes into portage, or more
erotic still, a patch that makes it into upstream.
I'm now
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