Ralph
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 gave incorrect info as Cntrl/Alt/Del does a restart. Sorry.
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.
Yes. but what am I looking for?
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
Doing above resulted in same output but date stamp different (as I
expected).
With:-
sudo gedit /var/log/gdm/:0.log (thanks Dan)
Got into :0.log but did not understand what was listed, large file, is
there any way to save file and post to you without copy to list? Assume
I can give different name with 'save as' from getdit and save to my
documents area; without causing problems?
Also don't know if what I'm seeing is latest start up info as it started
OK for last 2x.
Clive
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