Holy frijoles! I had this same exact problem just last month: screen behaving as if it was switching on and off every second or so...
I got my putty colored box set up to boot directly into runlevel 5 (I think)... Anyhow... I did the "linux 1" at the lilo prompt in order to get a command prompt. That worked to get me back in as root. Then, in trying to diagnose the problem, a random memory from way back at one of last falls LUGOD meetings collided with a still functioning and as yet, undamaged brain cell, and I thought "Ya know, I wonder if my disk is full?" 'cuz I haven't done anything with my log files in several decades... So I typed "df" and discovered that my "/" partition had zero free megabytes. The "df" output indicated "100% use" on "/". Now, I have pack-rat tendencies, so I immediately reevaluated why I was holding onto about 20 megs worth of tarball downloads and decided they had to go! So, after "rm"ing them into bit heaven... I had 99% use on "/" and... *VOILA* my system would suddenly boot into graphic mode again. Your mileage may indeed vary... and on a further note, I still haven't fixed my overflowing log file problem 'cuz I have yet to learn how to make this Travan tape drive work with Linux. :) Any clues for the clueless would be greatly appreciated. > If you use LILO in text mode (you see "LILO: " prompt), type "linux 1" > to > boot into text mode. If you use LILO in graphics mode, you press some > -Mark > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Help!!! > > I'm having problems logging into my computer. I shut it down to install > > more RAM and then rebooted. Comp boots all the way to the text login, but > > I dont have a chance to loging here because it is set to log straight into > > x-windows first and then give a graphical login window. when it tries to > > boot into x-windows, nothing shows up on the monitor. The monitor seems > > as though it is turning on and off...or trying to switch resolutions. > > When I ctrl-alt-del to restart, the boot-down procedure couldn't shutdown > > the x-font system. the error message read: > > shutting down x-font system [failed] > > so, I shutdown and took out the RAM I had just installed and booted back > > up. The same thing happened again. > > Apart from the obvious issue of how can I boot back into KDE, I'm not sure > > how to stop the boot procedure from trying to load x-windows on startup. > > Then at least i could log onto the computer. > > I know this probably sounds very vague, but I dont know what more > > information I can give. does anybody have any idea what might be going > > on? I would prefer not to have to reinstall! > > thanks > > Kai -------------------------------------------- Ed Glass [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
