HD Install :: Need help I goofed up my machine



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sh: line 1: /tmp/pipe.lua: Permission denied  What do these permissions need to be?
This looks like an unrelated issue, but i don't know what that script does.

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Tcltutor wouldn't start so I executed wish from my /bin directory which didn't appear to do anything.
When you tried Tcltutor, did you already have Tcl/tk installed?  TclTutor won't run without it.  
Executing "wish" from a shell won't work if you are using the Tcl/tk UCI.  You need to use the full path to wish, or add the wish bin directory to your PATH variable.

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When I hit crtl-alt-F1 it has no prompt and shows anything that I type and I hit crtl-c and it displays xinit: unexpected signal 2 then asks for login.
When you press ctrl-alt-F1 you enter the shell from which X was run...it will display messages from your X session. Ctrl+c most likely killed your X session.  You *should* be able to use the command "startx" to get it back, but it looks like it's coming back to the original problem of being logged out when you close X.  I'm starting to wonder if you somehow set your shell to be xinit or something similar.  Did you change your default runlevel?  Using xdm or some other login manager?

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tclsh said "&>aterm.log" was a bad option when I run aterm &>aterm.log
"&>" is a Bash redirect...it won't work in Tcl.

You still didn't say whether you tried the other suggestions...running aterm/rxvt/xterm from a "run" dialog....starting other console apps from the menu...?
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When you tried Tcltutor, did you already have Tcl/tk installed?


Yes I installed tcltk8.3.dsl last month but didn't know how to use it.


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Did you change your default runlevel?  Using xdm or some other login manager?


No I wouldn't know how to do this.  Could it have been when I mounted tcltutor.uci in emelfm it changed this?  I noticed that it made a tcltutor directory in opt eventhough I unmounted.

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You still didn't say whether you tried the other suggestions...running aterm/rxvt/xterm from a "run" dialog....starting other console apps from the menu...?


I tried that from the run command menu and from emelfm command line and got an empty aterm log file.  I think that I will reinstall this weekend and never try to mount a uci file from a harddrive install.

Thanks,
Mike
mikshaw,

I really appreciate your help and hope that I didn't offend you.  It is frustrating when a PC has problems just when everything was running so well.  I was thinking that I needed to get something more secure than win95 and tried DSL.  I like DSL much better.  It's not bloatted and it runs really good on my old hardware.  What I was actually doing was trying to use this old PC to record wave files from a Reveal radio card and got sidetracked trying to learn TCL.  I was having visions of having a TCL frontend for a SQLite database.  The possiblities are just fun.  The uci mountables may not be the cause of my problems but I am a little gun shy now.  For HD installs is there a way to convert them to dsl or deb?

Thanks,
Mike

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