Help, everything on the screen is blue!

[Leonard Chatagnier]

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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Leonard Chatagnier
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