Re: aklug Digest V4 #45

See if you can log on using a different window manager. I remember KDE
doing something like that to me where it couldn't clear a jam in the
print cue that would keep other parts of KDE from working right. I just
logged into Gnome, emptied the print cue, and logged out.

>Subject: RE: Linux is boring
>Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 17:22:06 -0900
>From: "Stephen King" <sking@chartercollege.edu>
>
>You are either a whole lot luckier (or unluckier, depending on your
>take) or smarter than I. =20
>
>To quote an e-mail from a Linux (Xandros)-based client this morning:
>"My computer won't boot AGAIN!! It froze up while I was trying to print
>something off the internet and I tried to reboot it, but it would only
>come up to that blue screen after signing in with my password. I tried
>two more times, then I put in the Xandros disk. I did the "shift" key
>thing and then told it to "restore". It asked me questions, like which
>number do I want to restore (and only gave me a list of 1), so I picked
>"1". Then it asked me if I was sure I wanted to restore and I said
>"yes". Then it asked me if I wanted to change the command line, and I
>said "no" (of course). It said that my system has been restored, told
>me to remove the CD and hit the "enter" key to reboot. I did. Still
>nothing."
>
>They were trying to print the table of Iditarod mushers off the Iditarod
>site...shame on them for printing an HTML table. I tried the Restore
>option myself, and nothing. It accepts the login (both that user and
>root) and then goes to a big happy blue screen and sits there for as
>long as you have the patience to watch for. The Restore option had
>worked the last time I got called to work on that machine, a couple
>weeks ago. Then I tried the Rescue option, which dumped me into single
>user mode. Poked around in the file system to see what I could see.
>Nothing jumped out at me, so I tried Ye Olde Windows Trick of
>reinstalling over the top. That seems to have worked, 'cept now I have
>to reinstall Word Perfect and find the right printer driver again.
>Arrrrrrgh!
>
>So...question to the group: Any thoughts as to what I should'a
>checked/done to try to recover from the error? =20
>
>Thanks,
>
>Stephen King
>Instructor, Information Technology
>Charter College
>2221 E. Northern Lights Suite 120
>Anchorage, AK 99508
>(907) 777-1370
>=20
>
>
>

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