God almighty, why cannot Kubuntu just LOAD? The actual install is quite straightforward, but it's taken me two weeks to get to the finish line. I have an 8.10 install disk which the on-disk checksum routine says is fine (and it HAS installed twice, today). But every time I tried to install, I got read errors at some point. Got a new CD/DVD reader ($60). Still had the problem. Got a new HD (USB addon - didn't get it to solve the read error problem), and suddenly the CD will read. Whaaaa?
Except it's taken around 9 tries to get it to go all the way to completion. It was obviously getting further each time before it died with a read error (or something - I'm not entirely sure - a bit rummy now). Unreal.
After first successful install (wow - KDE 4's lovely!), I was in System Settings (?), looking at the Screen settings or wherever one deals with desktop specs, and I opted for some kind of "complex effects" - I think it said something about Compiz. Big mistake. Screen went blank after a few seconds. No responsiveness. Reboot didn't help.
I should mention my sys specs: dual boot, now with two HDs. Internal HD has WinXP, and my old KB 8.04.1, which had a mysterious problem and wouldn't boot - not for two weeks. External HD now has Intrepid in one partition, and /home in another - so my previously set up user acct. files from the first Intrepid boot are still there, and I think that's now the problem.
I reinstalled 8.10 (took 3 tries), and arrived at the same point - blank screen after login. I tried to boot into the recovery mode, and did a package repair and some other thing that looked like it was a fix-it trick. Didn't fix MY problem. I still cannot get to a normal desktop.
So...dare I say that I think I need to delete, or edit some user acct. file, but...
1. I don't know which one.
2. I don't quite know how to do it when I cannot get to a desktop.
I don't want to just set up a new user acct., since I have stuff in the present on, on HD2.
Would much appreciate some help here! Thanks as always.
Tom
Except it's taken around 9 tries to get it to go all the way to completion. It was obviously getting further each time before it died with a read error (or something - I'm not entirely sure - a bit rummy now). Unreal.
After first successful install (wow - KDE 4's lovely!), I was in System Settings (?), looking at the Screen settings or wherever one deals with desktop specs, and I opted for some kind of "complex effects" - I think it said something about Compiz. Big mistake. Screen went blank after a few seconds. No responsiveness. Reboot didn't help.
I should mention my sys specs: dual boot, now with two HDs. Internal HD has WinXP, and my old KB 8.04.1, which had a mysterious problem and wouldn't boot - not for two weeks. External HD now has Intrepid in one partition, and /home in another - so my previously set up user acct. files from the first Intrepid boot are still there, and I think that's now the problem.
I reinstalled 8.10 (took 3 tries), and arrived at the same point - blank screen after login. I tried to boot into the recovery mode, and did a package repair and some other thing that looked like it was a fix-it trick. Didn't fix MY problem. I still cannot get to a normal desktop.
So...dare I say that I think I need to delete, or edit some user acct. file, but...
1. I don't know which one.
2. I don't quite know how to do it when I cannot get to a desktop.
I don't want to just set up a new user acct., since I have stuff in the present on, on HD2.
Would much appreciate some help here! Thanks as always.
Tom
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