Very Computer

by **Robert Bate** » Tue, 11 Dec 2001 11:47:17

I installed RH7.2 on my Compaq Proliant 5000 with quad Pentium Pro 200s
today and everything works fine except for Gnome. When I start X it starts
to grind the drives and eventually brings up the desktop with no icons and
that's it. I can't break it with control-alt-del. Any ideas?

by **Baard Ove Kopper** » Wed, 12 Dec 2001 08:23:24

> I installed RH7.2 on my Compaq Proliant 5000 with quad Pentium Pro 200s
> today and everything works fine except for Gnome. When I start X it starts
> to grind the drives and eventually brings up the desktop with no icons and
> that's it. I can't break it with control-alt-del. Any ideas?

*Is* it a desktop, or is it just the grey of X? Perhaps GNOME
hasn't started at all?

What you can try, is to set another WM/DesktopM as default --
perhaps KDE, and then try to start GNOME manually with
startx or xinit. If you use the option -- :1 (as in
xinit -- :1 ), you'll start a *second* X-session on
F8 (rather than F7 as is the "normal" X-session). You
can switch woth ctrl-alt-F7 or ctrl-alt-F8.

If the computer is working too hard, it may ignore ctrl-alt-del...
perhaps you can try with ctrl-alt-backspace -- that is especially
for killing the X-server (of cource, in run-level 5, it will
just start up again).

-Koppe

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