On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 10:49 -0400, Croombe F. Pensom wrote: > I've also had this problem very recently when GNOME would hang during > the splash screen with only one ikon on the progress bar. I was given a > couple of tips by members of my local user's group. They are : > > 1) from root do following bash > rm /tmp/.X10-lock > > this worked for me several times > > 2) after a while it deteriorated to a black screen with a movable mouse > pointer and that's all. The suggestion for this cure was : from root do > following bash > rm /home/yourhomename/.gnome2/session > > this worked also for a while and then it deteriorated even further (see > below). > > How to get to the root? From your frozen GNOME hit CTL-ALT-F1 and this > will get you into bash and you can then log in as root and do the above > suggested bash commands. > > Eventually, that even didn't work and I was advised to do something > which turned out to be disastrous so NEVER EVER issue the following from > a root shell > > rm -rf $Home/* Are you sure you executed the command above ? This would mean you deleted the /root directory and all its contents. Are you sure you didn't delete your personal home dir and everything in it ? Anyway, I guess you've learned your lesson, don't just copy and execute commands (especially rm commands) from a root shell. > As I found to my bitter cost, this ERASED EVERYTHING including my data > files on my USB memory stick and these were my day-to-day operating > needs such as : e-mail addresses, snail-mail addresses and phone numbers > etc., Firefox bookmarks, financial records and so on. I was DEVASTATED > to say the least. Now, following a complete re-install of FC5 I'm glad > to say I'm back in business and slowly recovering about 90% of my data > from old files saved to Zip disk. > > Croombe Pensom > > -- eric.donkersloot@xxxxxxxxx Amsterdam, The Netherlands
