I installed 9.10 on my laptop, got all my hardware working, and started installing programs (VLC and Flash, etc.). Whilst installing something, it froze up. After googling for the CTRL-ALT-DEL equivalent for Linux, and failing, I did a hard reboot. Now, KDE doesn't load, I just get sent straight to the terminal. A few more hours of googling "how to load kde from terminal," and trying various things like "startx," "start kdm," "stop kdm," and I'm nowhere closer to seeing that beautiful desktop (CTRL-ALT-F7 doesn't work either).
startx yields:
fatal server error: server is already active for display 0. if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again, please consult blah blah blah. giving up. xinit: connection refused errno 111: unable to connect to X server. xinit: no such process errno 3: server error.
Alternatively, I thought I might try installing another distro of Linux (Mint, because it sounds more "user friendly"), but google again failed in being able to give me pertinent results as to how to install something from the terminal. I know I have to mount the dvd, but I don't know what it's called, or how to list the drives/partitions on the system.
Please help me get back to a GUI!
startx yields:
fatal server error: server is already active for display 0. if this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again, please consult blah blah blah. giving up. xinit: connection refused errno 111: unable to connect to X server. xinit: no such process errno 3: server error.
Alternatively, I thought I might try installing another distro of Linux (Mint, because it sounds more "user friendly"), but google again failed in being able to give me pertinent results as to how to install something from the terminal. I know I have to mount the dvd, but I don't know what it's called, or how to list the drives/partitions on the system.
Please help me get back to a GUI!
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