Messed up my graphical login HELP!

[David Smith]

On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:55, Andrew Konosky wrote:
> David Smith wrote:
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> >On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:23, Andrew Konosky wrote:
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> >>I was installing some new graphical login screens, but on of them must 
> >>have been a bad download because now when I boot up, the login screen 
> >>gives me an error saying that the PNG image is bad. I press OK, but the 
> >>error doesn't go away and I can't logon graphically. I can log onto my 
> >>system via the command line, but I don't know what the commands are to 
> >>do anything. How do I reset the login screen to default via the command 
> >>line, or how to I launch Gnome or KDE from command line so I change go 
> >>back and change to my old login screen?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Andrew
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> >Once you log in you could type startx and then change the login screen.
> >David
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> I start my computer up, then the graphical log-in gves me the error, so 
> I press ctrl-alt-f5 to go to the shell prompt. When I type startx I get 
> an error that X is already running. So if X is already running, how do I 
> start gnome or KDE?
Type init 3 (or /sbin/init 3) and then type startx. Once you change the
login type exit the x environment and type init 5. It should be fixed
then.
David
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