PCLinuxOS 2007 problems

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david.rowe

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Has anyone else hitting problems with running PCLinuxOS 2007 under Parallels 3.0 Build 5160 in the last few days? - particularly to do with X11 not starting up

I had a PCLinuxOS installation which has been working quite nicely for about a month. I haven't updated Parallels recently - but I think there were a series of updates to PCL about 4 days ago. Now I find the X11 system won't start up. It tries to - but then collapses back to the command line. The symptoms are different to The current Ubuntu 7.10 problems - there only seems to be one attempt to start up and I can't see any useful diagnostics.

I went to the command line and swapped the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file for the original default PCL one - and lo, X11 started properly - but of course, the Parallels tools were not installed. Anyway, I managed to extract some vital data files from the PCL VM, but when I then tried to reinstall the Parallels Tools, X11 in the PCL VM stopped working again. So it looks like there is something in the latest updates to PCL that disagrees with the Parallels Tools.

I love Parallels Desktop when it is working - pure magic - but it is so fragile!
 
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So at the end of the install, you were back at the desktop and did a shutdown dow to a black shell and after ejecting the CD, and restarting pclinuxos, it booted up OK ?

Towards the end of the install, when it asks where to put the boot information, what did you do ?

Thanks for taking the time to respond by the way. its very much appreciated
 
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