[plug] Problems

[nofixed]

I think my problems may have started earlier.  I tried to install all
updates from xandros, and after download was complete xandros-network
hung unpacking one of the packages.  In the past when that happened I
needed to reboot to recover since I could not determine wich
processes to kill.  To cut to the chase, I ran 'dpkg upgrade -f' I
think, without checking my sources.list first.  I acquired about 100
packages from uwa's "unstable" mirror.  Perhaps some were not quite
compatible with what I had...

With so many variables, I think the best option is to start over.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to get started with Gentoo?

Thanks
Jim

---- Original Message ----
From: nofixed at westnet.com.au
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: RE: [plug] Problems
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 23:19:31 +0800

>SOS SOS SOS
>
>I find myself in a bit of a bind.  Things progressed as follows:
>
>The first problem was that I could not terminate a console window
>except by killing it.  I first noticed it after trying to run the
>following script from the panel.  BTW I'm using xandros (debian) and
>their flavour of KDE.
>
>#!/bin/bash
>read level
>frozen-bubble -l$level -ns
>
>It did not work, so I ticked 'use console' in the advanced
>properties.
>Still did not work, but the console window hung when I tried to
>remove it by clicking on the X in the upper right corner.  
>
>>From then on, console windows hung when Xed.  It appeared that
>kdeinit was using a lot of cpu time, so I killed it and the console
>window went away.
>
>I thought kdeinit might be corrupt, so I uninstalled and reinstalled
>it.  First the xandros flavour, then plain-vanilla.  Neither had any
>effect.  Could this have broken some symlinks?
>
>My problem now is that I cannot start KDE.  I get the initialisation
>screen which hangs on 'loading window manager'.  Before that it was
>hanging on detecting peripherals.  I have 2 user accounts and root,
>and all behave the same.
>
>Any help will be greatly appreciated.  I have been reasonably happy
>with xandros, but I worry about using distros that have been
>modified.
>
>tia
>Jim
>
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