• nta
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Topic: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

Yeah, so. I'm a total noob. Now we have that out of the way.

The most crazy thing happend to me, and I don't know if it's some kind of bug, but I was pretty amazed.

So, after I while of using #!, I feel that Terminator might not be the terminal of choice for me, so I decided to use Xterm. The thing is, I really like the looks that I've got on my Terminator, so I try to get the colors in Xterm to be the same.

After a while of configuring my SSD starts to give me these errors that my disk is full and I cant save anything to it. (That's where my /home/ is).

So I thought, 'Well, maybe it's just a bug. I bought this SSD when they said some SSD's of the same brand had some problems. I'll just reboot and see if it goes away.'

So, I reboot and now I can't log in to my #! and this is where it all went downhill. I try to log in to the 'root' account and succeed, but when I enter I have Debian?! WHAT? HOW on earth did that just happen?! (I know #! is based off of Debian, but still?!)

http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/8568/screenshot0122201208180.th.png


It's kinda funny though, cuz this morning I decided to start over fresh with #! now that I've learned a thing or two about what apps and programs I wanna use, but this was just insane.

If you have an answer to what just happened, go ahead and post it, cuz I'm really curious.

As I said, I was going to start fresh so it's really no harm, but I found it kinda funny and I think it's a rare thing to happen.

I'll be back in a day or two,

See ya!

/nta

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  • Registered: 2008-11-24
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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

I have a 3-part explanation for what I think happened:

1. Somehow you installed Gnome desktop along the way (only you can answer when/why)

2. Disk full is actually kind of a serious error in Linux because it can prevent logins and all other sorts of errors. Deleting some files (with shift+delete, don't move them to the Trash) will free some space and should allow you to log in again.

3. Root account was never designed/intended to be used in #!, so therefore it is not "decorated" with the usual #! theme, artwork, and config. Therefore in your case it defaults to the generic Debian Gnome desktop (which you installed somewhere along the way).

  • From: In Front of The Black Gates
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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

That looks more like and Xfce screen that has lost it's way..  Are you using Xfce?

I have seen exactly this when a crash caused my xfce sessions to hose and got that session on my next start

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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

Is that what Xfce looks like these days (I haven't used Debian in a while), I thought it was Gnome 2 it's so close. My mistake. smile

In that case nfa, the explanation is simply that the root account in #! is not "skinned" with the #! artwork (since it is not intended to log in as root).

  • dubois
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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

That's the GNOME skin, not the Xfce one.

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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

Then it must be both...

As I have no gnome and only Xfce smile

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  • dubois
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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

I'm stupid.  I've got it, too but I changed the name of /usr/share/images/desktop-base so it wouldn't show those pajama pictures for a desktop.

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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

dubois wrote:

[..] so it wouldn't show those pajama pictures for a desktop.

hahahahahahaha lol

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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

LMAO ...

Nope have no idea what you did. But willing to bet money it's just that. Something you did ... #! just doesn't become another distro, that takes a massive amount of newbish borkage to even be remotely poss. lol

Theme change ... or blahblahblah ? Still laughing. big_smile Pop open a terminal and type "uname -a" w/o the quotes ...

Good news, a reinstall is always ever a reinstall away. Not that it matters either. Depending on how you have things set up. Might google up on putting your /home partition on another drive, if you have another o course that is. Don't know all that much about these new fangled SSD's, well know a tad. Yep faster ... yep often expensive too. Been a bit since I checked really. Am out of the hardware loop, shrugs. Only a thought ... whatever ya did, ya might not wanna do that again. Or maybe ya do ... dunno. Please be good enough to post additional funny stuff that happens and other odd borkage you inflict though. Cause I need laughter wherever I can find it. tongue

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-22 22:47:18)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !) tongue
  • dubois
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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

nm

Last edited by dubois (2012-01-22 22:58:40)

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Re: I broke #! so hard it decided to leave

lol ... he doesn't sound like he's all that broken up about it. lol Oh well either way, am sure it'll be sorted out. Take a deep breath dubois, count backwards from 10 or summin. Still lmao regardless.


lol

Additional n pointless babbling


Being new to gnu/nix or making a mistake is not a crime. OP freely admits to being newbish, I still do too. First starting out, I borked myself a couple dozen times. Learning the way around and ever trying to tweak things to make it lighter, faster ... blahblahblah.

It's not the end of the world, ya make a mistake, ya learn summin, ya fix it. Not like it's good cause to have a heart attack or de stroke over.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-22 23:47:31)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !) tongue