[oclug] mandrake help needed

[Rod Giffin]

On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 21:04, mdavis8 at uwo.ca wrote:
> I can't find a list of the programs I installed
> from the command prompt to see if removing the chat programs would be of any
> help. I know how to do it from the gui using upmi but not having an operational
> mouse tends to defeat that option. I even started kde manually and found that,
> to my amasement, it actually booted up but with the same mouse problem. (In case
> you are wondering, whenever I start kde through 'startx' or automatically from
> boot up it looks as if it gets hung up trying to open a login window or
> something and gets stuck in a loop where it changes colour and refuses to do
> anything, even cntl-alt-bksp takes a few attempts to work properly.) 

Without knowing a little bit more about what is going on, it's going to
be harder for anyone to diagnoses what is happening to your system.  In
the /var/logs directory, you will find a bunch of files related to
feedback from your system - errors encountered etc.

You might want to look through the dmesg, messages, syslog, boot.log,
etc and see if there is some explanation recorded for any of the errors
you're getting.

You can also parse the output of startx to see if an error is generated
that might point to a misconfiguration or something that would explain
the problems you've been having.

That said, I'm not sure what help I'm going to be to you.  Mandrake
typically installs more reliably than Windows, and I've only ever
experienced one problem with it - a laptop PCMCIA problem on boot.  What
I can say is that usually the cause is at least hinted at in the log
files somewhere.

Rod.