[plug] RH6 shutdown problem

[John Summerfield]

> I recently installed RH6. Installation went ok. At end of installation I 
> re-booted,as required. All works ok. Then I give the shutdown command. No 
> problem. Then I try to re-boot. Big trouble!!! Linux boots up to the login 
> section, then the screen starts flickering for a while. Then I get a screen 
> that says the following:
> Localhost Login: According to /var/run/gdm.pid,gdm was already running(94), 
> but seems to have been murdered mysteriously.
> This msg is repeated all down the screen, with a different No. in brackets 
> after each msg.
> Then at the bottom of the screen there is the following:
> INIT:id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
> 
> After 5 min or so, the process starts all over!.
> PLEASE, can someone help me here? I am extremely Linux challenged and have 
> no idea how to gain access to my Linux os again. If anyone answers this, 
> please try and make it simple, I am NOT an experienced user. Thanking yo in 
> advance,
> 
> Peter Cooper

At the lilo prompt, say
linux 3

This will make it boot into a character-mode console.

Login as root;
[root at possum summer]# cd /var/gdm/ 
[root at possum gdm]# ls -l
total 6
-rw-r--r--   1 root     gdm          4455 Sep  6 14:53 :0.log
-rw-r-----   1 root     gdm            66 Sep  6 14:53 :0.xauth
[root at possum gdm]#                                                         



Take a look at :0.log
[root at possum gdm]# less :0.log
[root at possum gdm]#  

If its contents don't make sense, post its contents to the list.

You could also do this:
rm -f /var/run/gdm.pid,gdm

I do recall the problem; I do not recall how I fixed it.

If yoy want to, you can use the startx command to get to a GUI

-- 
Cheers
John Summerfield
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