Messed up my graphical login HELP!
David Smith
dsmith at programmablesolutions.net
Wed Jul 28 22:01:43 UTC 2004
On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:55, Andrew Konosky wrote:
> David Smith wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 2004-07-28 at 18:23, Andrew Konosky wrote:
> >
> >
> >>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
> >>
> >>
> >Once you log in you could type startx and then change the login screen.
> >David
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 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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