[LUNI] [HELP] X Problem Since Update

[Arun Khan]

On Wednesday 08 August 2007 20:12, Robert Smith wrote:

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> Please tell me that I haven't lost my KDE desktop forever, and if
> anyone has an idea on how to fix this, I would sure appreciate the
> assistance.

No, your kde configs files are in $HOME.  KMail msgs are in $HOME/Mail.  
Hopefully, your /home is mounted on a separate disk partition.

> When I try to start X, I get an error message that displays on the
> screen, Fatal server error:
> no screens found
> XIO: fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0"
>        after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events remaining.

The way I see it you have two options:

a) Look around in /etc/X11 and see if the previous version of xorg.conf 
has been backed up.  If so, you can rename it back to xorg.conf and see 
if it helps.

b) As root back up /home into a file (tar czf home.tar.gz /home) and 
save it some place.  Reinstall your distro and restore /home from your 
back up file.  If your /home is on a different disk partition, this may 
not be necessary - just keep in mind not to format this partition 
during the reinstall :)

HTH 
-- Arun Khan