Help! I broke my PClinuxOS install. [RESOLVED]

[joopyhellspawn]

I activated Desktop Effects and even though the cursor still moved around the computer was frozen. I did a shut computer down via power button. Now when I try to restart computer normally it won't get pass the loading KDE icon on the boot screen. I can boot in Fail Safe. I thought to go back and disable the desktop effects but don't know what program to call up in the CLI. Can anybody help me out with this?


I had to boot up a live cd of joliOS to post this.

[T6]

hello and welcome to the forum!

desktop eefects like compiz or kde desktop effects?

if it is compiz in the kdm menu(user and password)  you can press the session type button and select drak3d option and then login

this will call the proper menu to disable or enable the compiz option

if it is kwin desktop effects what doesn't let you work, there is a file you can edit the file kwinrc located in /home/thenameofyouruser/.kde4/share/config/kwinrc

in that file on the livecd you can open and change the line called Enabled form true to false so the file shoulkd look like this

[Compositing]
AnimationSpeed=3
Backend=OpenGL
CheckIsSafe=true
DisableChecks=false
Enabled=false
GLDirect=true
GLMode=TFP
GLTextureFilter=1
GLVSync=true
HiddenPreviews=5
OpenGLIsUnsafe=false
UnredirectFullscreen=true
XRenderSmoothScale=false

save the file and restart

[Archie]

after a commandline login, startx

[kjpetrie]

First, after an unclean shut down, always boot from the livecd and use fsck -f on your unmounted partitions.

Second, learn the  Alt+ SysRq R-E-I-S-U-B codes to shut down cleanly or regain control. Were you not able to Ctrl+Alt+F1 into a text terminal to log in and shut down there?

Third, If the desktop is still broken follow T6's instructions above.

[T6]

"First, after an unclean shut down, always boot from the livecd and use fsck -f on your unmounted partitions"

in more than 4 years using pclinux i never done this lol!

[Archie]

I did. Once. So you'll get r turn next year!

[maxpolaris]

First, after an unclean shut down, always boot from the livecd and use fsck -f on your unmounted partitions.

Second, learn the  Alt+ SysRq R-E-I-S-U-B codes to shut down cleanly or regain control. Were you not able to Ctrl+Alt+F1 into a text terminal to log in and shut down there?

Third, If the desktop is still broken follow T6's instructions above.

from http://fosswire.com/post/2007/09/fix-a-frozen-system-with-the-magic-sysrq-keys/

Hold down the Alt and SysRq (Print Screen) keys.
While holding those down, type the following in order. Nothing will appear to happen until the last letter is pressed: REISUB
Watch your computer reboot magically.

REISUB is BUSIER spelled backwards.

[Archie]

First, after an unclean shut down, always boot from the livecd and use fsck -f on your unmounted partitions.

Second, learn the  Alt+ SysRq R-E-I-S-U-B codes to shut down cleanly or regain control. Were you not able to Ctrl+Alt+F1 into a text terminal to log in and shut down there?

Third, If the desktop is still broken follow T6's instructions above.

from http://fosswire.com/post/2007/09/fix-a-frozen-system-with-the-magic-sysrq-keys/

Hold down the Alt and SysRq (Print Screen) keys.
While holding those down, type the following in order. Nothing will appear to happen until the last letter is pressed: REISUB
Watch your computer reboot magically.

REISUB is BUSIER spelled backwards.

Yeah, somewhere in those keys are the short commands (xterm, maybe) is killall, umount and reboot. Not really sure of the others do but those are some of the important things with a clean shutdown.

[joopyhellspawn]

Ok, thank you all for your help.

I finally got kwinrc edited to fix it.

I never did figure out how to run fsck -f on my unmounted partitions using the liveCD.

[T6]

that makes us two

glad to help