I have had this occur. What I did was this - 1) run fsck - this program checks the filesystem. Run without any paramenters it checks the filesystem and reports to you when it has found a problem. It also suggests how this problem can be fixed, giving you a yes/no question (yes - fix, no - don't fix). To run fsck you will need to specify what device you need it to check. If your / partition is on hda1 then run fsck /dev/hda1, hdb1 run fsck /dev/hdb1. 2) when fsck has finished log out of root and the computer will reboot. It should then hopefully come up okay. If for any reason X doesn't work you may need to rerun Xconfigurator. 3) It might be an idea when you reboot to reboot into console mode. Type linux 3 at the LILO prompt and try startx from there. They way you can check that X is working without it running on start up. If this doesn't work I can't help you any further, hopefully if there are any further problems, or if my idea isn't the right one, someone else can help you out. Aaron > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeanette Russo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 26 August 1999 9:50 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [newbie] An error occured in file system check > > I was using dosemu and had a crash. When I rebooted I got this message, > An error occured in file system check dropping you to shell. The system > will now reboot when you leave the shell. Give root password for maint. > Then I give the root password and I try to start x and get this x11 > transport cannot connect error=2 giving up. xinit no such file or > directory. > Unable to connect to x server. > Can this be fixed? If so can some one give me some good instructions I > never had to try to fix Linux before? > Thanks > Jeanette >
