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

[Cameron, Thomas]

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> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org]On
> Behalf Of David Simmons
> Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 10:50 AM
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> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] HELP - N00b Award - Updated w/ Error
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> 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.

Next time you boot, use the GRUB editor (hit e at the splash screen) and append "3" to the end of the line that loads the kernel.  That will take you to runlevel 3, which does not try to start X.  Then you can troubleshoot more easily.

> Does this mean I just need to re-setup X (with X86Config or
> something?)....or does GDM use something else I've missed?

I am betting that X is trying to write to /tmp and failing.  Can you do:

ls -ld /tmp
ls -al /tmp

and post it to the list please?

--
Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
Assistant Vice President
Linux Design and Engineering
Bank of America
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