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broken linux
Uh oh! Newb may have just broken MDK 10.0 Linux. During install I configured with LILO to autoload KDE 3.2 desktop. Everything has been fine until.........Yesterday accidently shutoff power . Now during boot, something about loopback interface.....CUPS may not work properly. Then it only boots to '-bash' , which I believe is a shell. Then I need to log in under localhost.........then I need to log in as root.........then I need to enter 'KDE'..... only then do I get my desktop. Then when I want out, I can only log out of the session. There is no option to shutdown the PC from KDE. I have to reenter the shell...and then 'shutdown -h now' . This is obviously not going to work over the long haul. If I damaged these files.......who knows what else? This is my practice Linux PC. I don't have any important files. Need advice about this:
I can only devote a limited time to learn about checking the filesystem and fixing it.
OR ....I can reload the OS in about 30 min.
What would you do?
Thanks for any help
RE: broken linux
First run dmesg and also read /var/log/messages (as root). This will display the output of the booting process. Look there for things that you think are errors and post them here so we can know what happened. You probably have a broken filesystem or something. There is no need to reinstall the whole distribution -- if something is wrong, you can repair only those parts that are broken.
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