I was forced to use a hard reboot last night- grrrrrr! I installed Enlightenment, which went fine until I tried to load a certain theme. Then it came up with "config file missing lines" and asked me to restart or quit E (there was another choice-I don't remember). So I restarted E- it locked my computer up totally, no amount of key-bashing worked. After making a cup of tea, I decided to hard reboot.
Unfortunately, now every time I start Gnome, it goes through this process, even though Sawfish is my WM for E!!! (This has locked the computer up too). I reinstalled E, but this didn't help. Has anyone had the same/similar problem?
Incidentally, another thing that occurred just after that was that my computer CAN connect to the 'net, but for some reason cannot transfer any data at all, meaning I had to reboot into windoze to get online.
grrrrrrrr.... >:| Ricardo
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forgive me if you already know this, but are you sure it hard locked ?? In my experience X crashes and takes out the keyboard and mouse, but you can still connect to the machine remotly. When this happens, try pressing ctrl-alt-backspace. X traps this key press and resets the X server giving you control of the machine once again.. probably 7 times out of 10 this works for me...
hth Sz
Ricardo Campos wrote:
I was forced to use a hard reboot last night- grrrrrr! I installed Enlightenment, which went fine until I tried to load a certain theme. Then it came up with "config file missing lines" and asked me to restart or quit E (there was another choice-I don't remember). So I restarted E- it locked my computer up totally, no amount of key-bashing worked. After making a cup of tea, I decided to hard reboot.
Unfortunately, now every time I start Gnome, it goes through this process, even though Sawfish is my WM for E!!! (This has locked the computer up too). I reinstalled E, but this didn't help. Has anyone had the same/similar problem?
Incidentally, another thing that occurred just after that was that my computer CAN connect to the 'net, but for some reason cannot transfer any data at all, meaning I had to reboot into windoze to get online.
grrrrrrrr.... >:| Ricardo
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Ricardo Campos wrote:
Unfortunately, now every time I start Gnome, it goes through this process, even though Sawfish is my WM for E!!! (This has locked the computer up too). I reinstalled E, but this didn't help. Has anyone had the same/similar problem?
E 0.16 (which I assume you're using) is rather venerable by now. Hence it does things the old way. In this case (I suspect), it changed your ~/.xsession file, effectively hardcoding your PC to boot E anytime your uid starts X. Look for .xsession.0 or .xsession.old or anything like that. Restore it. You might then want to use kdm-config or whatever to add E as a potential WM to your version of xdm.
Incidentally, another thing that occurred just after that was that my computer CAN connect to the 'net, but for some reason cannot transfer any data at all, meaning I had to reboot into windoze to get online.
This is probably unconnected. But then, one guy gets sucker punched in a completely unbelievable way every million events.
Alexis
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