[ale] SuSE 7.2 login screen incomplete, unable login

[Matt Shade]

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>
To: ale at ale.org
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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