no desktop :)

[lee <lee imyourhandiman com>]

>
> > I'm laughing so hard.
>
> :)yup i just ignored to each own ..ha
>
> >
> >
> > I was catching up with less than a week's backlog, which is still quite
> > a lot. And weirdly, I was thinking how civilised gnome-list is by
> > comparison with other very large lists where the background of people
> > was so varied. Then I read that.
> >
> > Thank you for reminding me that life is never that simple.
>
> :)LOL
>
> > but upon reboot no longer does gdm come
> > > > up............only a purplish dark? screen and it locks up...........
> > > > i tried redoing  Xconfigurator no luck..
> > > > running redhat7
> > > > I know there's a way out of this i just don't recall as this hardly ever
> > > > happens
> >
> > I don't have any obvious ideas here, sorry. Except that I wonder what
> > this bit means: "and finally shutdown everything and tried to reboot".
> > Did you hit the power switch, or have I misunderstood?
>
> sorry bout that.......late night...well the HD issue was spinning "endlessly" ( which i hate
> ) so i opted to get out of it...don't recall what I did frankly..i think i had to reset..( as
> in button on machine )
>
> >
> >
> > If you are booting into X (which I assume, if you're looking for
> > gdm to occur) I suppose a first start is to switch to another virtual
> > console (with alt-F1, alt-F2, etc. You may need control-alt-F1 etc
> > if you are starting from a screen which is running (or trying to run)
> > X). You can login at the text prompt that way and start to poke about.
> > If you did hit the power switch, then look to see whether you have
> > acquired files in a directory called /lost+found, which is where Linux
> > puts semi-rescued files when it has the contents but doesn't know where
> > the file should live. I'm not very clear on what you -do- with it, as I
> > have avoided meeting this situation :) But seeing whether that directory
> > has got content in it might be a quick diagnostic. "ps ax | grep gdm"
> > or "ps ax | grep X" will tell you whether X is actually running.
>
> kewl i'll save for future ref thanks :)..there are several "admin" things i've never used
> but need to be aware of :)..
>
> >
> >
> > A lesson you always learn too late, alas, is "whilst everything is
> > working fine, make a copy of various important /etc files and put them
> > on a floppy somewhere, and include XF86Config in that list". (Other
> > candidates are "anything you have changed in /etc at all, if you're
> > like me and mess with it happily so that all your accounts have the
> > same defaults :))
> >
>
> yup.........what actually happened was that "the gimp" had created this ( likely my fault
> dunno ) huge swap file......which i understand is typical.......but this was huge....it just
> kept going and going )LOL
>
> anyway thankfully i had my boot disk , went in with linux 3 and REMOVED :) that huge
> file..rest is history....... :-)
>
> thanks for replying telsa :)
> lee
> -===