Whoops! Urgent Help Please!!!

[gaylapdancer]

Ok, My GNOME environment stopped responding. I used Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X, and when I went to log back in under GNOME, I get a pale blue screen, no progress bar, no desktop, nothing. I rebooted under Blackbox and set Window Managers to Metacity, and got the pale blue screen again. Have I broken Metacity?

How can I fix it? Its Urgent as I have a Biology Report due tomorrow and I can't get to it.

Thanks in advance.

[John Jason Jordan]

Ok, My GNOME environment stopped responding. I used Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to restart X, and when I went to log back in under GNOME, I get a pale blue screen, no progress bar, no desktop, nothing. I rebooted under Blackbox and set Window Managers to Metacity, and got the pale blue screen again. Have I broken Metacity?
How can I fix it? Its Urgent as I have a Biology Report due tomorrow and I can't get to it.
Pus come to shove, you can boot to recovery mode. This gets you a text screen. From there you should be able to copy the report onto a thumb drive and, once on the thumb drive transfer it to a computer at a lab at school and finish it there. If booting in Recovery mode doesn't work, you can boot to a Knoppix live CD, mount your hard drive, then transfer the file to a thumb drive. With Knoppix you should also be able to burn the file to a CD. These are worst case scenarios, of course, and hopefully won't be needed.

To fix it, I would suggest that you try setting everything to plain vanilla. Standard troubleshooting -- delete items one at a time until you find the culprit.

[gaylapdancer]

To fix it, I would suggest that you try setting everything to plain vanilla. Standard troubleshooting -- delete items one at a time until you find the culprit.

How would I go about doing that?

[gaylapdancer]

No worrys. Fixed it. I reinstalled GNOME then rebooted and it works fine. Thanks guys.