Relevent Config Info: Red Hat 8.0 up to patch level. Asus A7N8X Deluxe motherboard Running 2.4.21pre4 (copied the athlon config from the Red Hat kernel source to .config and ran make oldconfig to configure - I need a newer kernel than Red Hat's 2.4.18 or even 2.4.20 because I have an nforce2 chipset and the IDE performance is suctacular due to lack of a driver for the nforce IDE controller - and I needed to patch the 3com driver for the onboard 3com nic)
I recently did a couple updates to my system: 1) edited /etc/fstab to mount /var/run and /tmp as a tmpfs volume: none /var/run tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 2) installed nVidia drivers for my GeForce4 (compiled on my system) I *believe* my problem didn't start after step 1 but started after step 2 When attempting to startx I would get an error - and this would be logged in /var/log/secure : Jan 31 01:09:52 mpetershomenetwork pam_console[968]: Could not open lock file /var/run/console/mpeters, disallowing console access I put a band-aid on the problem by adding this to /etc/rc.local : if [ ! -d /var/run/console ]; then /bin/mkdir /var/run/console fi I would like to know, though, what the REAL problem is - just in case there are other issues I need to fix as well. Thanks for any help. Please cc me on any response -- Michael A. Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list