Re: [tlug] Re: Kubuntu v5.10

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Lyle" == Lyle H Saxon <Lyle> writes:

    Lyle> When I booted my test machine with Kubuntu today, it came up
    Lyle> in lower resolution (800x600 I think) and without the
    Lyle> desktop settings I had previously made.  "What the...?" 
    Lyle> thought I and I tried rebooting it to see what would happen.
    Lyle> It came back to command line only.

This is bad.  A reboot should take you to a known state.  If you were
expecting the resolution you configured with a desktop, you should get
that.  If you then reboot and things change again from what you
actually saw, I have to think you're slowly wiping out your installation.

    Lyle>   I logged in, but was still looking at a command line, so I
    Lyle> tried "startx", but that just produced an error message
    Lyle> (something about the server - sorry I didn't write it down).

If you log in as root or use sudo, you should be able to get a
directory listing of /var/log.  Look for something starting with X,
the tail of that will probably have useful information.  Also try the
dmesg command.

    Lyle> So... I think I'll wipe the drive and try Ubuntu.

You could do that, but I recommend you look at the logs and see what
they say first.

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