Google Earth crashing X.org

[William O'Higgins Witteman]

On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 03:42:27AM -0500, Mike Oliver wrote:

> So two questions: (1) Anyone know how to fix this, and
> probably more important (2) How do I tell X.org to
> GET THE HELL OUT OF THE WAY and let me have a text
> login prompt?

I cannot answer (1), though I suspect that you will be advised to update
your machine - I don't really know if that will help, so I leave it for
others.

As for (2), this behaviour is caused by something (gdm, kdm, perhaps
others) trying to give you a graphical login, which barfs because it
can't, logs out, and this starts over.  So, there is a two-step process:

1 - figure out which mechanism you use for graphical logins (If you use
Gnome, XFCE - gdm; if KDE - kdm)
2 - run this command: sudo update-rc.d -f (gdm|kdm) remove

That should give you text logins, and no crash-looping.  Of course, now
you have to start your graphical display manually, probably using the
command "startx".  If this is new/unfamiliar to you, ask for more info
before you start - it sucks to be stuck in the console if you don't know
how to get on the web or email to ask for help.
-- 

yours,

William

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