On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, 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. Its very silly though I'm >sure I needn't, so can someone suggest what to do when, > >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.
Sometimes this can be resolved by repeating the same cat again. Basically, you need to get the same error to repeat itself, cancelling it out. This is easier in a pager such as more, because then you can actually quit the process when the ----more---- line looks like it should, but I guess it works similarly with cat, except you don't have the fine-grained control. There are other methods, but this is the one I use. >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. ctl-alt-f[1-6], then login and kill the X process, or ctl-alt-bkspc and hope that a restart of [xgk]dm will solve it. >suggestions? > >caoilte > > > -- Armageddon means never having to say you're sorry. Who is John Galt? [EMAIL PROTECTED], that's who!
