On Monday 01 Jul 2002 7:59 am, vangala sarma wrote: > 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
The hanging during shutdown is a known problem with LM8.1 Here is how to resolve it http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/81errata.php3#usb The second thing you have learned is NOT to shut down a Linux system by hitting the reset key. Linux uses memory as a disc cache and if you shutdown suddenly the Hard drive does not have time to be updated and may be corrupted. You should perform a graceful shutdown as described here http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/81/en/ref.html/ts-system-freeze.html Thirdly. You are very much less likely to get a Hard drive corruption in the future if you select a Journalised File system. LM8.1 defaults to Ext2 file system which is not journalised. However you can upgrade it to a journalised Ext3 system quite easily without reinstalling or losing any data. http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/81/en/ref.html/ext2fs.html Just open Mandrake Control Centre>Hardware>Diskdrake highlight the partition you want to convert, select Ext3 file system and 'Done' HTH derek
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