Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:13:44PM +0000, CND OConnor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've used linux quite a while now, but every so often I do something to
> my system I can't fix that I know will go away if I reboot. I'm lazy, I
> guess, so I do. I can always make some tea.
I find it hard to be sympathetic to such a request.
It's a bit like buying a new car, then when it gets dirty
instead of taking it to the car-wash you buy another one.
I suggest you do some exploration. Who knows you may be in
a position to help others on the list :)
Both of the problems below are easy to solve.
I will leave it to others to tell you...
Cliff
> 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know
> it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii
> characters you didn't know you had.
>
> 2) X crashes (hasn't for a while actually) and dumps you in a grey
> screen with a mouse pointer and nothing else. (That would be running
> unstable, helix-gnome, enlightenment and gdm with mozilla to crash it).
> I've tried restarting the gdm daemon but that doesn't work.
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