[newbie] startx problem...

2002-07-01 Thread vangala sarma
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

RE: [newbie] startx problem...

2002-07-01 Thread Franki
Of vangala sarmaSent: Monday, 1 July 2002 3:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [newbie] startx problem... 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

Re: [newbie] startx problem...

2002-07-01 Thread ollyplaine
On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 11:59:40PM -0700, vangala sarma wrote: 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

Re: [newbie] startx problem...

2002-07-01 Thread Derek Jennings
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.

Re: [newbie] startx problem...

2002-07-01 Thread vangala sarma
Thanks all of you for the quick replies. I have tried the modifications told. But I still am getting the same set of error messages. I deleted the file /tmp/.X0-lock. I even renamed the file .Xauthority to /old.Xauthority. And when I say startx again I got the same problem.Can I do something