on Wed, Nov 07, 2001 at 03:23:22PM -0800, calyth-shaw (calyth@shaw.ca) wrote: > I was rebooting the system when it froze, right after sending the "wall" > message to all users that it's going to reboot. It resulted in an > unflushed disk cache reboot, and I know it was going to be massive. > Now I'm left with at least a problem in which X wouldn't start for my > regular user, yet it starts for the root user. I've tried to > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-common, and specify that anyone could start X > server, yet it still wouldn't start. I was using Gnome/Enlightenment. > > Can somone tell me what could be wrong so that I don't have to do a > fresh install? Boot single after a hard crash and fsck system disks. Use the -f option to force checks even if the fs checks as clean. You might also want to take the additional steps of adding a journaled filesystem (reiserfs or ext3fs) to your system. I've added reiserfs to laptops I run, am trying to get ext3fs configured. Sounds though that your remaining problems are likely unrelated. The X problem sounds supiciously similar to several problems noted here. There's a quoting problem in one of the startup files, possibly /etc/X11/Xsession.d/99xfree86common_start, though I haven't been following the discussion properly. Remove the double quotes if they exist. You might also check the contents of /etc/X11/Xserver. As always, watching program startup and error output is helpful. Fresh installs are rarely needed. Checking your package status should be sufficient. I was having a debate with a friend regarding rpm/dpkg features. I'm wondering what the equivalent to an RPM verify is -- would that be debsums? What are we looking for in the output? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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