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General => Installation issues => Topic started by: y2k98 on May 18, 2007, 07:09:37 am

Title: install problems
Post by: y2k98 on May 18, 2007, 07:09:37 am
i just installed and everyhting worked fine, i restarted and all i get is a mouse on a screen, if i press ctrl + alt + f1 i can login, startx and browse to its ip and login, but ctrl + alt + f11 its just a mouse please help
Title: Re: install problems
Post by: Live_gdp on May 18, 2007, 12:07:03 pm
I have the same problem, black screen with mouse. I'm using UI1 and the vesa drivers.
Title: Re: install problems
Post by: jester on May 18, 2007, 12:30:42 pm
You might have the same issues as described in this post: http://forum.linuxmce.com/index.php?topic=1630.0 (http://forum.linuxmce.com/index.php?topic=1630.0)
Also a workaround is given.
Title: Re: install problems
Post by: sharlee_angelo on May 18, 2007, 12:36:56 pm
i saw a similar problem and i solved it by renaming kdm.saved in /etc/init.d to kdm.
Title: Re: install problems
Post by: jester on May 18, 2007, 12:46:42 pm
@sharlee_angelo: have you got wiki edit rights? An update of the known issues in the wiki might be handy for others
Title: Re: install problems
Post by: y2k98 on May 18, 2007, 05:37:29 pm
i saw a similar problem and i solved it by renaming kdm.saved in /etc/init.d to kdm.

madmin@dcerouter:/etc/init.d$ ls k*  -la
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  493 2006-09-22 11:53 keyboard-setup
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  944 2006-10-06 07:34 killprocs
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1928 2006-10-06 09:46 klogd


i dont have a file called kdm or kdm.saved
Title: Re: install problems
Post by: y2k98 on May 23, 2007, 08:08:37 pm
problem solved! used http://forum.linuxmce.com/index.php?topic=1310.0 as the solution