Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, suvayu ali wrote: > > I don't mean to insist, but I had a similar problem and I was able to > replicate the old drive along with the partition table and LVM onto > the replacement drive using ddrescue. The procedure is documented in > this post. > >

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread suvayu ali
Hi John, On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:58 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > On Mon October 17 2011, suvayu ali wrote: >> >> If you want to salvage your data, I would recommend ddrescue. It >> worked wonderfully for me. >> > Thanks. It's not that bad. Yet. I just know that SMARTD is apparently > telling me th

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, Tim wrote: > Usually, you can CTRL+ALT+F2 (or one of the other F keys), over to a > text console, on the same computer, to use the command line. If that > works, then it saves you a bit of hassle to work through this problem. > Though, it can happen that the graphics system

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, suvayu ali wrote: > > If you want to salvage your data, I would recommend ddrescue. It > worked wonderfully for me. > Thanks. It's not that bad. Yet. I just know that SMARTD is apparently telling me that the drive is failing. I don't have a replacement yet, but hopefully

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 7:18 PM, John Aldrich wrote: > Could be part of my disk is trashed. I logged into Gnome as a test (didn't > like the lack of desktop icons, another reason I don't use KDE any more!) > and got notification of a hard drive error. I'm working on getting a new > hard drive, so

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, Robert Myers wrote: > > VNC apparently correctly anticipates what's on the other end. Your > system is confused about either your video card or the monitor for > your console. Were it me, I'd be plugging in other video cards and/or > monitors just to see what happens. I

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread Robert Myers
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:17 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > Ok... I have switched from noveau driver to the nVidia driver. That helps. > Except I use XFCE4 as my window manager and the main bar at the top of > every window is missing on the local console. HOWEVER, it works fine in VNC. > I don't under

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
Ok... I have switched from noveau driver to the nVidia driver. That helps. Except I use XFCE4 as my window manager and the main bar at the top of every window is missing on the local console. HOWEVER, it works fine in VNC. I don't understand why, since both the local console and the VNC session

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread John Aldrich
On Mon October 17 2011, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 00:28 -0400, D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > > You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it > > to fix your xorg.conf issue. > > What xorg.conf issue? The *way* Fedora/X Org works now is you DON"T > nee

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 00:26 -0400, John Aldrich wrote: > If I have an xorg.conf file it REALLY hoses the system and I don't get > ANY graphics whatsoever and I have to rely on SSH-ing into the box to > init 3, delete the xorg.conf and restart x, at which time it's > somewhat normal. Usually, you

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:57 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > Quoting "D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr." : > >> You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it >> to fix your xorg.conf issue. >> > So you think I ought to try "yum remove Xorg" and let it go? Will that > mess up any of my pers

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-17 Thread suvayu ali
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:50 AM, Mike Chambers wrote: > On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 00:28 -0400, D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. wrote: >> You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it >> to fix your xorg.conf issue. > > What xorg.conf issue?  The *way* Fedora/X Org works now is you DON"

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-16 Thread John Aldrich
Quoting "D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr." : > You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it > to fix your xorg.conf issue. > So you think I ought to try "yum remove Xorg" and let it go? Will that mess up any of my personal settings or will those likely not be touched? -- users m

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-16 Thread Mike Chambers
On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 00:28 -0400, D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr. wrote: > You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it > to fix your xorg.conf issue. What xorg.conf issue? The *way* Fedora/X Org works now is you DON"T need the .conf file anymore. It's suppose to just work. No

Re: HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-16 Thread D. Marshall Lemcoe Jr.
You might just completely remove Xorg and then completely reinstall it to fix your xorg.conf issue. On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:26 AM, John Aldrich wrote: > A little while ago I inadvertently killed power to my F15 box. Now I'm > unable to get a better screen size than 1024X768 (previous was > 128

HELP!!! System messed up!

2011-10-16 Thread John Aldrich
A little while ago I inadvertently killed power to my F15 box. Now I'm unable to get a better screen size than 1024X768 (previous was 1280x1024) as well I'm having problems with my keyboard and mouse. The keyboard will suddenly not work any more (i.e. I can't type) and the mouse will somewh