[wellylug] Re: wellylug digest, Vol 1 #536 - 12 msgs

[Colin Iles]

Same question but is there another answer?

> I wonder if anyone using mandrake 10 has had this problem:
> 
> When I boot up it occasionally freezes at the blue screen prior to the
> login screen.  All I am left with is a cross in the middle of the
> screen.
> 
> However, I can access a terminal window with Cont/Alt/F2 and can login
> as either myself or root.  I am however at a loss as how to continue to
> load the KDE GUI which presumably would permit me to continue as though
> nothing had happened.  Can anyone please tell me what to write on the
> command line to continue so that I don´t have to reboot by turning the
> computer off and on again.


Thanks to Damon, Geln and Jethro for your suggestions to the problem
above: ie: # reboot; Cntr/Alt Esc and Cntr/Alt Del.  What these are
designed to do is reboot.  However, since as far as I can tell, the
complete OS has loaded and has stopped at the login to the KDE GUI, and
I can access the command line as either myself or root as user, is it
possible via the command line to complete the login to the GUI?

Or is this a recognised fault with my nVidia graphics card as you
suggested Damon?  Incidentally, I do not seem to have this problem on
those rare occasions when I boot up into Windoze

Any thoughs gratefully

Thanks Colin I