On Thu, 7 Jun 2012 01:46:06 +1200 "Chris Bannister
cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz" suggested this:
>I'd just like to point out that "the system¹" doesn't touch the
>"." [dot] files/directories in your home directory on an upgrade. Each
>individual program might and a few of them definitely do, but y
On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 09:16:56AM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> Apologies especially to Chris and Brian, for my tardiness in the follow
> up to this post.
>
> I didn't reinstall the system.
Good.
> What I did what was almost as "sledge hammer to crack a nut" though.
>
> I just removed all my "." [do
>Thanks for your help Chris and you also Brian. But I think that it's
>something to do with my /home partition and I'm going to format it and
>reinstall again and see if something changes.
>I have backups of the files and data, so will not lose anything.
>Thanks for your help. It's appreciated.
On Thu, 24 May 2012 02:45:26 +1200 "Chris Bannister
cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz" suggested this:
>Oh well, best of luck. Don't hesitate to post back if you are still
>having problems.
Thank very much for your help and that offer Chris, It's much
appreciated.
Be well,
Charlie
--
** ** ** **
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:53:45PM +1000, Charlie wrote:
> Thanks for your help Chris and you also Brian. But I think that it's
> something to do with my /home partition and I'm going to format it and
> reinstall again and see if something changes.
Oh well, best of luck. Don't hesitate to post bac
.
Sepmnkkl#)))nt from my HTC
- Reply message -
From: "charlie"
To:
Subject: Waiting for xserver to begin looking for connections
Date: Tue, May 22, 2012 00:18
On Tue, 22 May 2012 05:44:43 +1200
Chris Bannister wrote:
> For a start, please post exact output of following comma
On Tue, 22 May 2012 23:24:05 +1200
Chris Bannister wrote:
> The idea is to get a log of the faulty session.
>
> 1) startx as user.
> 2) When fails, reboot.
> 3) Don't startx as root, but become root and then type:
>
> grep \(EE\) /var/log/Xorg.0.log
warning (EE) error (NI) not implemented (?
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:15:27PM +0100, Brian wrote:
> > > -rw--- 1 charlie charlie 14557184 May 21 16:25 .xsession-errors
> >
> > Any clues in .xsession-errors? (Please don't send it to the list, its
> > too big.)
>
> The present one certainly is, but he could delete it and restart X to
>
On Tue 22 May 2012 at 23:24:05 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:18:46PM +1000, charlie wrote:
> > On Tue, 22 May 2012 05:44:43 +1200
> > Chris Bannister wrote:
> >
> > > For a start, please post exact output of following commands.
> > >
> > > -
> > > ls -al
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 02:18:46PM +1000, charlie wrote:
> On Tue, 22 May 2012 05:44:43 +1200
> Chris Bannister wrote:
>
> > For a start, please post exact output of following commands.
> >
> > -
> > ls -al .x*
>
> -rwxr--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1273 Feb 10 16:29 .xdvirc
> -rwxr--
On Tue, 22 May 2012 05:44:43 +1200
Chris Bannister wrote:
> For a start, please post exact output of following commands.
>
> -
> ls -al .x*
-rwxr--r-- 1 charlie charlie 1273 Feb 10 16:29 .xdvirc
-rwxr--r-- 1 charlie charlie 737 May 22 09:45 .xsession
-rwxr--r-- 1 charlie ch
On Tue, 22 May 2012 05:44:43 +1200
Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:15:30PM +1000, charlie wrote:
> > If I log in as root, all works as it should and the GUI starts as it
> > should.
>
> Does it look exactly the same as if you had logged in as yourself?
It does, just doesn't
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 06:15:30PM +1000, charlie wrote:
> If I log in as root, all works as it should and the GUI starts as it
> should.
Does it look exactly the same as if you had logged in as yourself?
I just tried startx as root and amazingly I get a GUI. (Never used to,
got a message about c
13 matches
Mail list logo
