locked out off my desktop

[kyrkyr]

hi all total newbee
was getting on fine with my suse 9.3 untill i tried to network with my xp system so i could update an go on internet while doing this iv turned something off when iv gone back to start system it wont boot up as the desktop i had at begining
am getting gray login screen once logged in cant seem to restart wotever iv turned off can anyone help its probably very easy and im a idiot

[Jeshua]

I'm not sure how suse 9.3 works, but my Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 has an option on the Logon Screen (i'm not sure if you even can get there), but you should be able to select either KDE or Gnome desktop. I your Gnome desktop is messed up then use Kde if your Kde is messed up use Gnome. I can't really give you instrutions on how to fit it from there but, I reccommend updating to openSuse 10.2. It is free from openSuse.org.

[kyrkyr]

unfortunately im still locked out

[rong]

am getting gray login screen once logged in cant seem to restart wotever iv turned off

This sounds like you are in the text mode and at the command line, correct? So you can type commands like ls and see the results of running a command, correct?

If so, what is the result of typing in startx? Assuming X does not start what errors do you get?

[kyrkyr]

the error i get is :
fatal sever error:
server is already active for display o
if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.x0-lock

xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
xlib: invalid MIT-MAGIC COOKIE-1 key
giving up
xinit: unable to connect to X server
xinit: no such process (error 3): server error
couldnt get a file description reffering to the console

cheers for reply

[devils casper]

hi kyrkyr !

i am not sure what you turned off. in terminal, log in as root and execute 'startx' again.
if it throws same error, execute this

rm -f /tmp/.X0-lock

linux is case sensitive. X is capital in above command.
execute 'startx' again. if GUI loads, turn ON whatever you have turned off.




Casper

[kyrkyr]

have tried this
it just said
rm: cannot remove '/tmp/': is a directory

[devils casper]

there isn't any <space> between /tmp/ and .X0-lock.

rm -f /tmp/.X0-lock

Casper