Re: Help! E/Gnome system crash

[Hall Stevenson <dhs erinet com>]

Aaron Prohaska wrote:
 
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> start playing with settings again. Only this time everything completely
> locked up! I don't remember exactly what I was doing at the time since
> it was late last night, but it killed the whole system. The only thing I
> could do was restart the computer, as even trying to use Ctr+Alt+Delete
> wouldn't work. I hit the reboot button and waited for it the boot linux.
> Only it got half way through the boot and told me:

I don't know if this would have worked or not, but when you run into
problems in X-Windows that you can't figure out, try CRTL-ALT-BACKSPACE
instead. That dumps you out of X-Windows... not gracefully as far as
X-Windows is concerned, but at least your O/S won't know or care!

Hall