[ale] SuSE 7.2 login screen incomplete, unable login

[Richard Holt]

Thanks for the comments.

Ctrl-C gets me out of the inicialzation on to the command line,
with a message that I need to fsck, reboot, and then 'mount -n -o remount,rw /'
At least now it stops before it gets to the fractured graphic login.

I'll try with a boot disk and read the manual a while.

thanks,
Richard.


> In addition, once you've booted up single user, you can change your
> /etc/inittab to boot to a different run level so the next time you boot
> "multi" it doesn't go to a graphical login. Then once KDE is fixed, change
> /etc/inittab back.
>
> matt shade
> www.threekay.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Master Wizard" <mainwizard at vei.net>
> Cc: <ale at ale.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2001 09:56
> Subject: Re: [ale] SuSE 7.2 login screen incomplete, unable login
>
>
> > At the boot prompt type 'single' after kernel name, such as 'linux
> single'. I
> > beleive you will have to remount root as rw. You can run e2fsck to check
> for
> > and, hopefully, repair faults. You can also reload corrupted files from
> backup
> > or original sources.
> > Ed.
> >
> > Richard Holt wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've installed SuSE 7.2 Personal Edition with 4.5GB win & 1.8GB lin,
> > > dual booting with win98se on Dell Latitude D300XT (PII-300, 128MB).
> > > Windows boots OK and Suse used to boot OK.
> > >
> > > On one occasion, suse hung or I hung it, (neither Ctrl-Alt-Bksp nor
> > > Ctrl-Alt-Del), and I had to cycle the power.
> > > Suse went through it's check but upon reaching the graphical login
> screen,
> > > the login dialog was incompletely drawn and does not respond.
> > > Current status: Lilo boots to KDE login but unresponsive and incomplete.
> > >
> > > This is the third time this has happened. Before I reinstalled but now
> > > my CD drive is bad, awaiting replacement.
> > >
> > > How do I get into a console before X and KDE load?
> > > Then what might help?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > > Richard.
> > >
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