SuSE 9.0 HeLP

[capc 0]

I screwed up again...

 

While in SuSE I was opening up Counter Strike (steam) when it freezed. Being the complete newb that I am, I started mashing buttons...

Anyways, I think I pressed CTR-ALT something and it took me to a command screen and prompted for login, I logged in and then restarted. But now everytime I restart, it takes me to the command instead of the gui.

 

Any Ideas?

Thanks,

Capc

[danleff 0]

The next time you start-up to the command line, try pressing ctrl + alt + F7.

[matttah 0]

i don't know if suse does it also this way, you can do telinit 5...telinit 3 would take you back to the non-gui format...you type that in the terminal or the bash line if you running as non root then it would be /sbin/telinit 5

Daum

[capc 0]

Thanks for trying to help guys, but to no avail...

 

Heres a re-cap of what I tried:

 

CTR-ALT F1:

Returns to colorfull comand login.

 

CTR-ALT F5:

Goes to regular black command login.

 

CTR-ALT F7:

Goes to black page with blinky square.

 

CTR-ALT F10:

Goes to a black command looking place and say's :

IO ERROR IN XOPENDIS

Dislplay :0 cannot be opened

 

Telnit 5:

Bash: Command not found

 

Any other Ideas?

[scribs 0]

Ok... try this...

 

Yast2 > System > Runlevel Edittor

 

Click "Expert" and then choose Runlevel 5 in the drop down menu towards the top. (should say "Full multiuser with network and xdm)

 

Let me know - I registered just to post this!

 

 

--

Matt

[capc 0]

Stupid question:

 

How can I run Yast2 without the GUI? Is there a command I can use?

 

Or what?

 

thanks,

capc

[scribs 0]

Yes. Did you try "yast2" yet? It has a graphical and text based mode. If that fails, type yast (but I think yast is replaced now).

 

> yast2

 

[capc 0]

Well, I got into Yast and changed it to runlevel 5, but absolutely nothing changed.

 

So I just decided to screw around in console, when i swtiched it to telinit 3, then back to telinit 5 and it gave me this:

 

Skipped Loading (something like that...maybe disabled...):

 

SuSEfirewall2_setup

boot.sched

SuSEfirewall2_final

 

Maybe some of these things should be...enabled?

 

If something doesn't happen soon... I might just... RE-Install

 

I hoped it wouldn t come to this...

[danleff 0]

have you tied logging in as user and not root? Then do the ctrl-alt-F7.

[capc 0]

I got it working

 

While browsing some other linux help forums, I found someone else with the same problem, and it was easily solved by running sax2.

 

Thanks to everyone that tried to help, I really do appreciate it!

 

Capc

[elyad 0]

hi,

i need some help. how can i switch from runlevel 5 to 3.

Thanks.

 

 

p.s. how can i login as "root" user or "admistrator"

[Edited by elyad on 2004-10-21 08:58:20]