I concur with this conclusion. Most likely your /var/log/messages file (or
one of the log files) is full. Boot up into console and delete whatever is
in the message files and see if that doesn't allow you to get to X. If it
does, the next step to fixing it is edit /etc/logrotate.conf and change
any references to "monthly" to "weekly" (no quotes) and anything that is
"weekly" to "daily". And change the "4" to a "1" -- there isn't any reason
to keep all those logs if you don't run a server. That may have prevented
the boot to X in the first place (hopefully).
That should stop the silliness permanently.
eryl
On Thursday 26 July 2001 01:52, Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> > Scott Wagner wrote:
> >
> > I had a problem with the X font server (Mandrake 8.0)starting so I
> > took someone's advice (not on this list) to change the port for xfs
> > from "unix/:-1" to port "7100". I changed this in
> > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and in /etc/rc.d/init.d/xfs. It didn't work. I
> > opened the files from the command line with vim and tried to put them
> > back the way they were but I cannot write changes to the file. I get
> > error messages like "write error in swap file" and "write error
> > (system full?)"
>
> Maybe a partition is full? IIRC that can prevent xfs from starting up.
> Check with df.
>Frans
