Perry Hoekstra wrote: > "Troy A. Johnson" wrote: > > Perry Hoekstra wrote: > > > > > > So far, I am only batting .500 on attempts to install/upgrade RH6.2 on > > > my various machines. On my database server, the installation croaks > > > trying to detect my mouse. > > > > I ran into this when installing RH6.0, and the quick and dirty solution > > was to "Alt+F2" (or was it "Alt+F3") to the command prompt (bash, I > > think) and then "ps auxw | grep mouse" and "kill -9" the "mousecfg" (or > > something close) process. > > How do you restart the process? When it hits the mouse config portion, > it thinks for a moment and then the screen goes black like the entire > process goes belly up. If I am not mistaken, the black screen is the mouse config program thinking about how to configure the mouse correctly, and it is stuck. Just "kill -9"-ing it will not allow it to return a "fail" value to the main install program, so the install will go on it's merry way. If I am not mistaken. :-) Troy -- Troy Johnson mailto:john1536 at tc.umn.edu http://umn.edu/~john1536/ I wrote a few children's books...not on purpose. -- Stephen Wright --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org