Mark
Getting this information might help you or us in troubleshooting the
problem.
1. what dm do you use kdm or gdm (kde or gnome) or somthing completely
different.
2. as root cd to /var/log/ then do
tail -f XFree86.0.log (yours might be 1 or 2 but for most is 0.)
Then put a bunch of ++++++ or some other symbol across the screen (to
mark what's new vs old) and try to start an x session using startx .
Enclose this output and about the last 20 lines of what startx spits out
when it dies. Also look at the last few lines of /var/log/messages to
see if it has any info.
My guess to the problem is.
1. It forgot what kind of mouse you have.
2. xfs (X font server) isn't running, or is dieing immediately.
3. /tmp might have lost a couple of files and this really messes things
up.
4. The linux gods have decided to keep you busy over the holidays *grin*
James
On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 20:38, Mark Weaver wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> This evening when I attempted to boot my Mandrake machine I was rudely
> greeted with the console login screen. This in and of itself is not
> necessarily a bad thing, except this machine is supposed to boot to
> runlevel 5. After some investigation I came to find out that the display
> manager is not working correctly. I can not start an X session on this
> Mandrake machine. It had been working this morning and didn't display
> any strange behavior.
>
> When I run the command *service dm status* it reports back to the screen
> that dm is dead, but there is a lock in place. If I run the command
> *service dm restart* it trys to bring up the login screen, but then fails.
>
> Since this is my first experience with any type of X or display problems
> with Linux I was wondering if any one had any ideas as to what this
> might be. While I'm at it what package does the display manager come
> from so I might try reinstalling that package in the event something
> happened to vital files on the disk that hosed "dm"?
>
> Vital machine stats are as follows:
>
> Dell Dimension 2100
> Celeron 1.2Ghz CPU
> 256MB SDRAM
> Intel 810 video chipset (onboard)
>
> I've had Mandrake running on this machine since getting it new this past
> May and this is the very first time I've had trouble like this of any
> kind. It's really got me puzzled.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
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