Help, everything on the screen is blue!

[Ashley Benton]

No I tried it before to answer to you but as you guess that was a little too
difficult to understand, and I didn't want to look for hours before to
answer to your message. So I sent you my answer and continued to read it
after. I didn't understand everything but you should be happy to know that the
problem is fixed. It was back to normal after I exit lsof. I sent an email
as soon as I saw that my screen was back to normal but I don't see it in the
list and apparently when I read your answer you didn't read it neither.
You'll excuse me if I made you think I was just waiting for a miracle, but
if I don't try that doesn't happen. So for your information I usually try
what people answers but sometimes that just doesn't work certainly because
of something else I should have done and have no idea about, or like with
your post because I couldn't understand and needed more than 2 minutes to
read and understand the output of lsof.
Thank you
Meg

On 11/6/07, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> But you didn't try lsof, I gather, so you didn't
> follow instructions and definitely didn't learn
> anything new.
> If you had tried lsof, it would tell you the process
> PID no. to kill if you knew which program to look for.
> I don't think 'top' necessarily tells you which
> program has crashed or still has remnants running on
> your system that you need to kill.  Lsof does if you
> know what you are looking for.  Hey, I'm no expert and
> could be wrong, but the way you follow instructions
> for people trying to help you out, I'm surprised they
> still do. Pardon the rant but I've noticed your posts
> for some time now. FWIW.
> --- Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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