On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:44PM +0000, CND OConnor wrote: > Hi, > > I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to > my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I > guess, so I do. I can always make some tea.
I find it hard to be sympathetic to such a request. It's a bit like buying a new car, then when it gets dirty instead of taking it to the car-wash you buy another one. I suggest you do some exploration. Who knows you may be in a position to help others on the list :) Both of the problems below are easy to solve. I will leave it to others to tell you... Cliff > 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know > it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii > characters you didn't know you had. > > 2) X crashes (hasn't for a while actually) and dumps you in a grey > screen with a mouse pointer and nothing else. (That would be running > unstable, helix-gnome, enlightenment and gdm with mozilla to crash it). > I've tried restarting the gdm daemon but that doesn't work.
