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Re: X gets killed immediately after successful graphical logon

Uwe Dippel wrote:

It seems my install simply fails me completely now. I had to do some
repair when booting a few days back, then it worked and now the repair
tends to come up at boot, again.
But even if it doesn't, it is not okay. Unfortunately, all messages
flash by too quickly, and don't show in dmesg neither.
But there is always something like /dev/shm not found, some
udevdevdevsdev-message, the wireless is recognized, but fails latrer
during boot, and now apt-get also shows some weird messages.
If you'll disable any login managers you have (one method would be to edit /etc/init.d/[k|g|w|x]dm for example, and make "exit 0" the first executable line in that script), then you'll be able to Shift-PgUp through all the boot-up messages after logging in, even the ones not shown by dmesg (as long as you don't switch to another VT, that is). 



That means, I better forget the whole thing and install, again, after
some 3 years?
I would only wipe/reinstall if you suspect a security compromise, or just think it'd take less time than repairing. Repairing is usually the better route. 


But I'd still like to save/backup as much as possible.
The following script shows some of the misery:

% apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
10 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch4) ...
Running depmod.
Finding valid ramdisk creators.
Using mkinitramfs-kpkg to build the ramdisk.
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs-kpkg: line 35: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied
mkinitramfs-kpkg failed to create initrd image.
Failed to create initrd image.
dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 9
Setting up libxul0d (1.8.0.15~pre080323b-0etch2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libxul0d.postinst: line 6: /usr/bin/touch: Permission denied


You're doing this as root, right?
Try touching a file (e.g., "touch myfile"); does it create, or update the timestamp on, the file? Also try "/usr/bin/touch myfile" to make sure you don't have a path issue.
Does "/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs-kpgk" exist? What are the perms on the file? Is the volume on which that file sits mounted read/write? 

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Kent West
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