Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-17 Thread Juan Ignacio Gaudio
Hello, As Bob suggested, I was able to boot in single user mode and restore X config file from there. Thanks for your help! Juan. 2010/12/17 Camaleón > On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:06:31 +0100, Juan Ignacio Gaudio wrote: > > > I broke my X (again) trying to install a graphics device

Re: Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-16 Thread Juan Ignacio Gaudio
un level by editing the > kernel line before you boot it in grub. It will affect only that boot. > > I don't have the comand syntex infront of me, but a google for it should > produce the info. > > ---------- > *From: * Juan Ignacio Gaudio > *Date

Spontaneously aborting X startup during Linux boot process

2010-12-16 Thread Juan Ignacio Gaudio
Hello, I broke my X (again) trying to install a graphics device driver on my Vostro 1000, so now I don't have video and the keyboard does not respond. I just need to be able to change to a console tty and restore the previous xorg.conf. But as X starts automatically I can't manage to do that befo

Re: gnome-settings-daemon error

2010-11-23 Thread Juan Ignacio Gaudio
Hello, That worked perfectly! Luckily I didn't lose too much, in a couple of minutes I had it configured again. Thanks, Juan 2010/11/23 Liam O'Toole > On 2010-11-23, Juan Ignacio Gaudio wrote: > > --001636284c1cac8f670495be0ee7 > > Content-Type: text/plain; chars

Re: gnome-settings-daemon error

2010-11-23 Thread Juan Ignacio Gaudio
re with it before I start moving documents and changing permissions, because I feel it's a matter of time before it happens again. Thanks, Juan 2010/11/23 Camaleón > On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 21:42:09 +0100, Juan Ignacio Gaudio wrote: > > > I'm getting an error message from the gnome-s

gnome-settings-daemon error

2010-11-22 Thread Juan Ignacio Gaudio
Hello, I'm getting an error message from the gnome-settings-daemon when I log in, and the desktop takes more time than usual to appear. Running Lenny 5.0 with Gnome 2.22.3 The error message is: "There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things, such as themes, sounds, or back