"Agrawal, Manish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I am a relative newbie to Linux and Redhat 9 is my distribution of choice. > But I find that it is relatively easy to crash X. > > Yesterday for example, my son accidentally pulled off the mouse chord. X > complained that the mouse was not found and when I inserted the mouse back, > it complained about Fontpath: UNIX/7100. Since X would not start, I > commented that line in XFree86.conf, X would not start. For newbies like me, > this is a killer. The only solution I have is to reinstall Redhat. I have > now done that about 4 times in the last 2 months. > > I am wondering if this is common experience or am I missing something? I > hate to have to go into the .conf files to keep my system running. What can > I do to ensure that my system is immune to crashes arising from minor > accidents?
It's rarely necessary to shutdown/reboot your system, even for something like the kids sabotaging the hardware (unless they pull the plug or hit the off switch!). Try looking up "runlevel" (man, etc.) and set your runlevel back down to '3' - command line. Then just type "startx" to restart the X server, and you should be back in business - without a reboot. best ________________________________________________________________ This message was sent using KTB.net InTouch with Tomorrow. For more information visit http://www.ktb.net -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
