   Linux woes...
  My box was working fine the other day - until I crashed when I was trying to dial up to the internet (with a winmodem, I might add - got the drivers working).I''m on the same box now, but I have a serious problem.You see, now I can only open KDE applications, nothing else will execute.I''m using KDE 3.1.1 now, and when I tried to open something like Mozilla in Blackbox, it didn''t execute.Xterm, however, did execute - in blackbox.Every KDE app is fine - Ksirc, Konqueror, Konsole, KPPP, Kwrite, Kedit, all that - but nothing else will execute!My CD is too scratched to reinstall, so that''s a no go.I am currenlty running College Linux 2.3 with Kernel 2.4.20 (compiled customly by me - but I didn''t leave out anything I shouldn''t have, I''ve done it a few times, worked fine before) - it''s a Slackware based distro.Oh and, the error I get when I type echo mozilla $? in a terminal is 11, apparently meaning resource unavailable.Any help would be much appreciated.I posted in the lounge because I need a solution ASAP.
  Reinstalling Mozilla doesn''t do anything?Is it just Mozilla?Does ~/.xsession-errors or the KDE error log say anything informative? ;  ug. winmodems.okay, uhh. a crash. lets see...try moving your mozilla config someplace else. like domv .mozilla .oldmozillaand re run mozilla. it might just be a locking issue or corruption.Did you run a full fdisk after reboot? ;  There is a *nix-forum here at gamedev, you know right? ;mozilla -ProfileWizard and then mozilla. Same goes for Firebird. ;  Fire up half life for some quick stress relief. ;  It''s not just mozilla, it''s every non-KDE app.Blackbox opens its apps, but not mozilla, xchat, etc..Oh and, aftermath - your command gave me this:bash-2.05a# mozilla -ProfileWizard/usr//lib/mozilla-1.3/run-mozilla.sh: line 72:   321 Segmentation fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}  I''m guessing that crash did some damage.How would I run an fdisk after boot?Just fdisk?   ;  Somebody said on #linux freenode to check my /etc/hosts to make sure they match.They don''t really match up, so maybe that could be the problem?How do I set up /etc/hosts for a loophack properly?Everytime I try to do netconfig it just discards the settings at the end.Help?   ;  It didnt do anything to your hard drive, dont worry.For hosts file, make sure you have:127.0.0.1 localhost HOSTNAMEAnd HOSTNAME can be anything like mycomputer or server1 or bork or whatever. Its the name of the computer (no quotes.) That does not have to do anything with your problem anyway.EDIT:Here is the contents of my /etc/hosts file for my server on a LAN::1localhost  localhost.my.domain127.0.0.1  localhost  localhost.my.domain192.168.0.2nan2d.com  bork  make bork your computer name, and 192.168.0.2 should be your LAN (local), unless you are using dhcp then just ignore the last line.   [edited by - aftermath on February 9, 2004 8:28:54 PM];  if he''s getting segfaults all over the place, then its some corrupted files.in which case, try taking a few seperate programs, like xchat, mozilla, and xterm, assuming they all crash for you, and use ldd to find out what libraries all three use. try reinstalling those libraries. you can also rule out any libraries the KDE apps use.or, going back to the /etc/hosts possibility. try a few tests like ''ping localhost'' or ''ping $HOSTNAME'' see what they do. 