Re: Help! My Debian blew up!
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"T.M. Hospedales" <tmh31@hermes.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> All of a sudden while trying to emacs -nw options to setup my new
> modem , things refuse to execute! It just stalls and doesn't do anything!
> I see no particular connection between things that work and those that
> dont: Working: xterm, ls, cat, fsck, vi Not: startx,emacs, xemacs,
^^
There's your problem... ;-) (Further discussion should be held in
alt.religion.emacs).
But, honestly.
Whithout trying to pretend I got the foggiest what the problem might
be, I would suggest to runt "ps -A" and "top" to see what might cause
problems. Also starts killing ("kill PID" and if that doesn't work
"kill -9 PID") user processes. Since non-graphic program works it
might be an X issue. (How come you can run xterm but not startx?!)
If some process does not dies it might be that one hogging the
system.
If all else fails, try a reboot. Does it solves the problem?
> Please tell me I dont have to d/l a new debian install over a < 1.0 kps
> ppp link?! :(.
Probably not. It is probably "just" some file missing/being corrupt. I
had some *very* strange problems until I found out that /bin/sh was
missing. Check errormessages on startup if something like that might
be the problem.
Do you get any errormessages?
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