Hi,
I am newbie to this mailing list. I have linux mandrake 8.1 installed on my home system. the system hanged when I tried to shut it down the last time and I had to restart it. Since then, I am unable to boot the system in graphics mode. If I say startx at the root I get the following error messages.
Xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
Xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
Xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
Xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
Fatal server error
cannot read lock file /tmp/.X0-lock
giving up
xinit : no such file or directory(errno 2) : unable to connect to Xserver
xinit: No such process (errno 3) : server error
xauth: error in locking authority file /root/.Xauthority
I tried XFdrake also but could not make out anything from it. I got the error message Can't open lock file /tmp/.X9-lock.
please help me. I absolutely have no idea what to do. I checked up if there is a file called .X0-lock, but there was nothing like that in the tmp directory of the root as well as the users.
I need to get back to the graphics mode as my research is completely using that option. Please help .....
Thanks in advance,
Sarma Vangala
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