[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 15/08/2005 04:42:11 PM: > Hi All, > > Thanks for the quick reply. Hornsby is a little far to drive, but > considering the number of Linux computer repair shops around I will > certainly keep Solutionsfirst in mind. > --snip-- > Last of all, the problem I'm having is that the system boots up and loads > everything OK (except one of the 2 NIC's). It is set to boot into GNOME, > but can't. The screen just flashes grey, black, grey. The hard drive > continues to click away. Occassionally I see localuser login: and by waiting > patiently each time the screen comes up for a few seconds I can manage to > login as localuser user. I can't get into the root directory. Once I saw an > error message saying that there was a font missing. > > Seems to me like there is a problem with GNOME. I'm not sure where to start. > So if anyone can still come up with a Linux repair shop somewhere close to > Haberfield/Ashfield/Strathfield I'd be happy to hear about it.
Hi Kerry, Usually the flashing is caused by swapping out the video card, monitor, keyboard or mouse, have you made any such change? There might be easier ways of doing this, but I have always done things the hard way. (I still use a terminal to navigate the filesystem!) In any event, check out: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html to get into single user mode (stop gnome from attempting to launch basically) To fix the X (GNOME) problem, try running Xconfigurator from the prompt and follow its instructions. For your NIC issues, are they both the same brand? if not, send the output of lspci (run as root). Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
