the ctrl-alt-f# allows you to select your session (ie you can have multiple logins)When you boot on the live cd it should offer you the option of testing your cd (and by proxy your cd drive) I suggest you try running that diagnostic test, something sounds fucked
the tan background with a pointer and nothing else sounds like it's hanging. Unless it's stuffed up your graphics...try alt+f2 and see if you get a run application box
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Sat 9 May 2009, 2:47,
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the tan background with a pointer and nothing else sounds like it's hanging. Unless it's stuffed up your graphics...try alt+f2 and see if you get a run application box
How do I exit from these sessionsand perhaps return to my crippled desktop?
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Sat 9 May 2009, 2:49,
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just try all the f numbers and see if you get back to your desktopif i recall correctly f7 is the default one with the gnome desktop
edit: yep ctrl+alt+f7
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Sat 9 May 2009, 2:50,
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edit: yep ctrl+alt+f7
ed: soz misread your post...ok, seems as though gnome hasn't loaded and the startup is hanging...can you move your cursor? is your cursor a traditional arrow or an X?
is the live cd good? If you got a menu (offering to install linux, try it out, test cd, boot from first hdd), you can try testing the cd, if you don't know.
otherwise, it's looking like a hardware/driver problem and tahkcalb probably knows far more than i do.
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Sat 9 May 2009, 2:59,
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is the live cd good? If you got a menu (offering to install linux, try it out, test cd, boot from first hdd), you can try testing the cd, if you don't know.
otherwise, it's looking like a hardware/driver problem and tahkcalb probably knows far more than i do.
No, I mean it doesn't bring up a run application box.alt+ctrl+f2 launches another session like all the rest.
I did actually run the test CD option earlier, and it came out OK, but that was on the previous drive I was trying, which in fact ironically appeared to be no good ("I/O error on device hdb, SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block..." etc) and wouldn't get as far as a desktop.
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Sat 9 May 2009, 3:02,
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I did actually run the test CD option earlier, and it came out OK, but that was on the previous drive I was trying, which in fact ironically appeared to be no good ("I/O error on device hdb, SQUASHFS error: sb_bread failed reading block..." etc) and wouldn't get as far as a desktop.