On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 01:56:05PM +0000, Robert Stone wrote: > Cannot boot my laptop. gnome-shell fills up syslog with these messages. > > There may be some typo's as I had to write this down and go to the > local library. > > > gnome-shell[1458]: failed to bind to /tmp/.X11-unix/X1024: No such > file or directory > > gnome-shell[1458]: failed to bind to /tmp/.X11-unix/X1025: No such > file or directory
The first question that comes to my mind is whether there is something that prevents access to /tmp. Whether the filesystem is mounted readonly or perhaps something else is preventing write access to /tmp.