Suse Blank Screen

[sirenka]

Hi Guys/Girls,

I'm newbie to this forum and also to Linux.
Recently I've installed SUSE on my machine and started installing some programs that I needed. I've followed the installation and dependencies while installing but when installing gettext and zlib (I'm not sure which caused the problem), after restarting the system I get screen with only background image on it, no login screen or start menu, nothing . I have restored the installation once then it worked fine, then again installed those 2 programs and got same blank screen.
Can anyone help me? I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong - cause the installation of gettext and zlib were successful but I'm crashing the SUSE .

Thanks,
sirenka

[someuser]

I doubt that it's zlib and gettext that are causing the problem. Strange coincidence, though. Which desktop are you using (Gnome, KDE)?

[sirenka]

Thanks for replying. I'm using Gnome Desktop.

[someuser]

Turn off the desktop effects if you haven't already. Kill Naytilus using

sudo killall nautilus

Gnome should start a new session. If this doesn't repopulate your desktop, see what happens if you log into a different user account (not root).

[sirenka]

I've tried using

sudo killall nautilus


but it gives me nautilus: no process found

Also I've tried using rm -rf .gnome .gnome2 .gconf .gconfd .metacity
but still same thing, it not solves my problem.

I don't know what else to do.

thanks.