woodsmoke
01-31-2010, 07:42 PM
Black screen, no graphical programs in menu, shell startx not work, upgrade got kde, sudo init 1, sudo init 5
WOAH!! How cool is this!
I reinstalled Knoppix on top (over the previous install) and...............
EVERYTHING IS STILL THERE!!!! I mean.........EVERYTHING!!!
This on a Toshiba Satellite laptop L35 with Knoppix the sole install on the hard drive.
Here is what happened.
I saw that there were a bunch of updates, 94 to be exact. So I decided to do the updates.
I've run into this before with other distros, the updates gave me plain vanilla KDE instead of the original community version.
I THINK that the way to NOT get plain vanilla KDE...... I THINK......if someone has further information PLEASE POST IT is.....
There, were, I think, five places where, after the download of the updates, that I was asked if I wanted to “keep the old ” or "use the new”.
KEEP THE ORIGINAL. At least I....think.....that is what you should do, it worked with an Ubuntu distro.
It may be that there are only a couple of those that really affect things dunno...if someone knows please post. It might save a few posts from frustrated people! :)
But, here are the problems caused by the “updates”:
a) I lost “graphical programs” in the original menu.
b) “startx” in shell started the OS, I could see the desktop for a few seconds, and then it fell back to the “black screen”.
I couldn't get past the black screen, there were a lot of commands there but I couldn't get anything to work.
So, I got on another computer and found a thread that was a reply to a similar situation.
At the prompt type:
sudo init 1
hit enter
then
sudo init 5
hit enter.
This will then boot the system. However, I was in “KDE”. All of the apps and my stuff was there but no Compiz. I restarted Compiz with the mouse but then found that the keyboard was not working.
And, no matter what I did, using the keyboard function in the menu etc. I couldn't get the keyboard to work.
HOWEVER the thing about getting to this situation is that you could insert a usb flash drive, and with right click, copy and past your data into the flash drive. Somewhat tedious but doable.
Well, I keep all of my “current” data on both the machine and a usb flash drive so recovering the data, in and of itself, was not a problem.
However, I was kinda irritated about losing my tweaks! :)
So, I did a reinstall and.....
WOAH!!!! GOT THE WHOLE SYSTEM BACK, the tweaks, the data, all of it :!:
HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!
Great Job Knoppix developers!!!!!
Again, if anyone has information to add please do so.
woodhavingfunsmoke
WOAH!! How cool is this!
I reinstalled Knoppix on top (over the previous install) and...............
EVERYTHING IS STILL THERE!!!! I mean.........EVERYTHING!!!
This on a Toshiba Satellite laptop L35 with Knoppix the sole install on the hard drive.
Here is what happened.
I saw that there were a bunch of updates, 94 to be exact. So I decided to do the updates.
I've run into this before with other distros, the updates gave me plain vanilla KDE instead of the original community version.
I THINK that the way to NOT get plain vanilla KDE...... I THINK......if someone has further information PLEASE POST IT is.....
There, were, I think, five places where, after the download of the updates, that I was asked if I wanted to “keep the old ” or "use the new”.
KEEP THE ORIGINAL. At least I....think.....that is what you should do, it worked with an Ubuntu distro.
It may be that there are only a couple of those that really affect things dunno...if someone knows please post. It might save a few posts from frustrated people! :)
But, here are the problems caused by the “updates”:
a) I lost “graphical programs” in the original menu.
b) “startx” in shell started the OS, I could see the desktop for a few seconds, and then it fell back to the “black screen”.
I couldn't get past the black screen, there were a lot of commands there but I couldn't get anything to work.
So, I got on another computer and found a thread that was a reply to a similar situation.
At the prompt type:
sudo init 1
hit enter
then
sudo init 5
hit enter.
This will then boot the system. However, I was in “KDE”. All of the apps and my stuff was there but no Compiz. I restarted Compiz with the mouse but then found that the keyboard was not working.
And, no matter what I did, using the keyboard function in the menu etc. I couldn't get the keyboard to work.
HOWEVER the thing about getting to this situation is that you could insert a usb flash drive, and with right click, copy and past your data into the flash drive. Somewhat tedious but doable.
Well, I keep all of my “current” data on both the machine and a usb flash drive so recovering the data, in and of itself, was not a problem.
However, I was kinda irritated about losing my tweaks! :)
So, I did a reinstall and.....
WOAH!!!! GOT THE WHOLE SYSTEM BACK, the tweaks, the data, all of it :!:
HOW COOL IS THAT!!!!
Great Job Knoppix developers!!!!!
Again, if anyone has information to add please do so.
woodhavingfunsmoke