[NTLUG:Discuss] HELP - N00b Award - Updated w/ Error Message

[Jack Snodgrass]

I'm just guessing, but I don't think that /tmp is mounted when Xwindows
is 
trying to start and Xwindows wants /tmp to be mounted... just a guess. 

Why don't you change /etc/inittab to boot up with text only
id:3:initdefault:

and then make sure you can login via text mode. 
once you are in as root.... make sure that /tmp is mounted and 
writeable. /tmp should be writeable by all.... 
then do startx to start xwindows manually and see if it works. 
If you find your problem... and correct it... then you can change
the /etc/inittab file back to 
id:5:initdefault:
and boot up into the graphics enviorment. 

jack 


On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 10:49, David Simmons wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 09:57, Chris Cox wrote:
> > Did you relabel the partitions (a primarily Red Hat thing)?
> > (tune2fs -L volume-label)
> 
> I didn't 're'label any of the partitions....with that said - I also
> didn't label the new partitions...but reading through the man page,
> seems like it's just a nicety issue (ie. not necessary)?!
> 
> > Can you include your /etc/fstab??
> 
> LABEL=/		/		ext3	defaults	1 1
> LABEL=/boot	/boot		ext3	defaults	1 2
> none		/dev/pts	devpts	gid=5,mode=620	0 0
> none		/proc		proc	defaults	0 0
> none		/dev/shm	tmpfs	defaults	0 0
> /dev/hda3	swap		swap	defaults	0 0
> /dev/cdrom	/mnt/cdrom	iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1	/mnt/cdrom1	udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,o 0 0
> /dev/hdg1	/tmp		ext3	defaults	1 2
> /dev/hdg2	/home		ext3	defaults	1 2
> 
> (with the last two entries being the new Hard-drive - which is on the
> second channel of a a Promise IDE card along with the /dev/cdrom1 device
> - on the primary channel)...but the I guess the 'hdg' should have told
> you that?!
> 
> 
> UPDATE:...if it helps, I think this is 'the issue'....in
> /var/log/messages:
> 
> gdm[992]: gdm_slave_xioerror_handler:  Fatal X error - Restarting :0
> 
> which repeats and repeats until I CTRL-ALT-DEL shutdown the system.
> 
> Does this mean I just need to re-setup X (with X86Config or
> something?)....or does GDM use something else I've missed?
> 
> Thanks again - Dave
> 
> 
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