Big X Window problem

[Concrete Geist]

I was trying to set up a dedicated Firearms server, and I had to overwrite an .so file a etc directory (it was part of the instructions). When I finished typing the commands in the Terminal, my Terminal fonts got all messed up. I figured, just restart the X server, but when I logged off, I was put right into the Linux Console. I reboot and my Mandrake gives me a lot of sad faces during boot up, and just ends up in the linux console again.

But after reboot, in the console, it says : INIT: ID 'x' re-spawning too fast, disabled for 5 minutes
I let it do that four times before rebooting and loading Windows. :(

[Concrete Geist]

Isn't there anything that can be done??

[Malakin]

Describe exactly what you did that screwed things up.

OR

You could try this:
"rpm -V -a > verify_results.txt"
This will go through all installed rpms, verify the files are installed, do an md5 check on them and store the results in verify_results.txt.
Then you can do a "grep missing verify_results.txt" to see which files are missing. or "grep 5 verify_results.txt" to see which ones aren't passing the md5 test (along with anything else that has 5 in the line)
From there you can do a "rpm -q --whatprovides filename" on missing files to see what rpms provide them and install them again with --force