Hi Clive,
> Yes. Locks up after showing the fault warning, no button pressing is
> acted on even Cntr/Alt/del. Screen is black, like a terminal window,
> fault shown at top line.
I'm not sure if Ctrl-Alt-Delete should do anything if you're on a
virtual terminal. What about Alt-1, Alt-2, etc? They switch between
the different VTs, e.g. you may be left on VT3, Alt-1 will switch to VT1
and Alt-3 will return you to seeing that error message.
> > > If I shut down
> >
> > How do you commence that? Just trying to get a picture of what's
> > available.
>
> Nothing works except by pressing the power button. (configured to shut
> down). Appears to close correctly, no indication of anything untoward
> happening.
#dorset think userspace is involved in handling that, suggesting it may
only be starting X and/or gdm that's the problem and the rest of the
machine is running fine.
> > Have a look in /var/log/gdm. An `ls -ltr' command will list the
> > most recently modified ones at the end. The last one will probably
> > be :0.log, meaning the log file for the X server's :0 display.
> > Perhaps there's something of interest.
>
> Just looked - var/log/gdm is empty and is locked(?)
Ah, sorry. On 8.04 it's
$ ls -ld /var/log/gdm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-08-19 22:06 /var/log/gdm
so you'd be able to look in it as a normal user. I see on 10.04 it's
now
$ ls -ld /var/log/gdm
drwxrwx--T 2 root gdm 4096 2010-08-14 09:08 /var/log/gdm
I don't know how to recommend a GUI user looks at its contents. Anyone
else? `sudo gnome-open /var/log/gdm'?
Cheers,
Ralph.
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