Help, everything on the screen is blue!

[Ashley Benton]

No I tried 'top' but didn't have any idea of what I had to kill that's why I
rebooted the computer. Now I have no more windows that won't close but the
screen is blue like I had put a blue plastic in front of the computer. That
includes my taskbar, screen and everything I open. As when it rebooted it
was very long I wondered if the folder I was opening did mess up some
important set up or programs in the computer, and what I can do to have
everything coming back white instead of blue. Right now I am making backup
of everything like that at least I won't loose the data if I can't fix it.
Thanks
Meg


On 11/6/07, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
>
> --- Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I was trying to copy some pictures from a cd to my
> > desktop, the pictures
> > were on the desktop but I had boxes which told me
> > that they were copying the
> > images. After a while I tried to cancel and close
> > the boxes but nothing to
> > do so I rebooted the computer. It usually makes
> > everything come back and
> > close the application that I am not sure how to
> > kill. When I came back to
> > the computer I had only a black screen, so I unplug
> > it, used the excuse to
> > put the nvidia card back in it and turn it back on.
> > It had trouble getting
> > to the regular desktop, long, very long before it
> > works and now everything
> > is blue. I had this card installed before and
> > working without problem and I
> > did exactly what I did when I put it in first, so I
> > am not sure it comes
> > from the card, I think it has something to do with
> > the pictures I was trying
> > to copy and open as they were made by a windows
> > machine, can somebody tell
> > me where I would need to look to find out what is
> > messed up in the computer
> > and how?
> > The applications seem to be working OK but when I do
> > ls -l I don't have the
> > name of the file listed anymore, only the
> > autorization, owner, group, size,
> > date, and hours, very few files still have a name,
> > but if I open my home
> > everything is ok, the name are still here! Must have
> > done something but I
> > don't know what.
> > Thank you
> > Meg
> >Hey Meg,
>
> Have you tried "lsof" from a CLI and looked for any
> related entries referring to the process you were
> doing. If so, try killing the process using the
> process ID listed, there may be more than one so look
> through the looooong list to be sure.  Just enter the
> command sudo kill <process ID no.>.  I want guarantee
> it'll work but that will kill any process still left
> over from what you were doing.
> HTH,
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
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