/ is fully accessible, mounted rw, it's OK. cd; mkdir 1; mv .Xauth* 1 - does not help. cd /tmp; touch .X0-lock - does not help. cd /var/run; touch gpm.pid - does not help.
there are only 2 filesystems: /boot and /, both mounted rw. --- Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 May 2002, Maxim Kryachko wrote: > > > Hi all. > > After sudden powerdown the system goes up, but: > > > > 1. X would not start complaining "cannot lock .Xauthority file" and "cannot > > read /tmp/.X0-lock". /tmp/X0-lock does not exist. 2. gpm service would not > > start complaining /var/run/gpm.pid is notpresent. 3. on boot there is a > > message "cannot remove /var/lock/subsys/network": input-output error. > > > > Fsck does not find any problems. > > Any suggestions? > > Start with gpm, as it s generally simpler than X. > > First some necessary reality checks: > > Are you sure that /tmp and /var (or maybe the whole of /) are nt mounted > 'ro'? or maybe some file systems are njot mounted at all? Or maybe some > directories do not exists? > > I assume that you have already checked those (or you would have noticed > them), but just in case. > > Anyway, all those messages hint of a file-system level problem. Can > 'touch' and 'rm' be used to create and/or delete the relevant files? > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
