Le Sigh...
May. 10th, 2004 10:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupSo, the server is apparntly still borked (as is my spelling -- today you're just gonna have to live with it.) The last thing we did before ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
_sps_ left on Sunday night was to install new versions of lots of the software, including X. Now it doesn't start. Or, rather, it sort-of kind-of starts, but not really.
I suspect that there are now two different X implementations or something running at the SAME TIME and its all gone monkey. The login screen is now text only (except for a light-gray mandrake background -- WTFFFFF?) and I can't run anything that wants X. If I say something like startx then it hangs for 10 minutes and finally says something like :0 is already in use, should I try :1?
If I say Yes, and do an Alt-Ctl-F1, I get a normal login screen that sometimes boots me into ICE, and sometimes runs Gnome.
Yeeeesh.
I'm sure this mess would only take 10 minutes to fix for someone who had even the vaguest notion of what the software stack looks like from the hardware up to Gnome, but I don't.
For today, color me defeated.
_sps_ left on Sunday night was to install new versions of lots of the software, including X. Now it doesn't start. Or, rather, it sort-of kind-of starts, but not really. I suspect that there are now two different X implementations or something running at the SAME TIME and its all gone monkey. The login screen is now text only (except for a light-gray mandrake background -- WTFFFFF?) and I can't run anything that wants X. If I say something like startx then it hangs for 10 minutes and finally says something like :0 is already in use, should I try :1?
If I say Yes, and do an Alt-Ctl-F1, I get a normal login screen that sometimes boots me into ICE, and sometimes runs Gnome.
Yeeeesh.
I'm sure this mess would only take 10 minutes to fix for someone who had even the vaguest notion of what the software stack looks like from the hardware up to Gnome, but I don't.
For today, color me defeated.
