Corel Linux problems

[frostgiant]

I am running Corel Linux Second Edition. I was trying to get the game "Pingus" to run in Linux. I went in Corel Autoupdate, and tried to install, but I was missing a bunch of dependencies. So I saw on Debian's site it had all the ones I was missing. I got "libbz2"
and "libhdf4g" installed fine. Then I had to get one called "freetype2" installed. So I tried to install that, but it said it needed a newer version of "libc6". So I saw a newer libc6 on Debian's list thing so I installed that. Corel AutoUpdate had a little window that said it needed to restart some of my services. It also said if any services start acting strange after this, to restart them too. Then the update was done and it said it installed succesfully. Then I had to go, so I went to shutdown. I logged out, but reached a login screen that looked like MS-DOS text mode. I didn't know what to do, so pressed CTRL+ALT+DEL and the system shutdown after saying stuff about sending "TERM" signal and unmounting. When I tried get back into Linux, X-Windows doesn't load, it gets past the little operating selection screen and then goes black. Help! I think this involves libc6. Do I need to restart KDE or something? Please help! Thanks.

[Theologian]

I am brand new to Linux and I just finished installing Corel Linux this week-end. I ran into a lot of problems configuring my video card. When that happened and I booted up to the Corel Linux option I would get the same blank screen.
If I chose the VGA option I could boot up to either a black and white KDE desktop or (when things were really bad) to the command line. You should be able to log in from there and work your way around to see what the problem may be.
If VGA doesn't work the LILO option takes you right into Bash, I believe. At least that way you can get things running even if it isn't graphical.
I am sure there are others here who know a lot more but I haven't seen a lot on Corel so I thought that might help.

[ndogg]

Boot up into debugging mode so you can see the error (if I remember correctly, there's an option with the word debug next to it, that's the one you want). Once you have the error, come back here. BTW, shutdown sounded normal, so you don't have to worry about that.

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[Evil Jeff]

Maybe a response a little more simple. The msdos text "thing" you saw was the cli. It is what the graphic environment in linux runs on. Most graphic applications are just graphic interfaces for command line (cli) programs.

Something I would try is to boot up, so that when x-windows doesn't start you end up at the command line. As the root user, use the program apt (the command line version of the corel update program) to try and fix the problems. Type this:

apt-get check

This should check to see if you have any missing dependencies. If you want to uninstall the version of glibc that you installed, from the command line type:

apt-get remove glibc

If that doesn't work, post again to let us know what it says. It might want to uninstall a whole lot of other programs if it does work. This is because those programs rely on the glibc library to work. It is up to you if you want to uninstall them. It will be easy enough to reinstall them later, once you have your system working again.

Evil Jeff
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