On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 03:22:05PM +1000, Adam F. Bogacki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble logging in to my RH7 drive. When I try I
> get a repeated message before the log-in screen should come up, suggesting
> the boot program is doing a loop:
>
> "According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (1094) but seems to
> have been murdered mysteriously
>
> According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (....) but seems to
> have been murdered mysteriously
>
> According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (....) but seems to
> have been murdered mysteriously"
After you get logged in you can prob delete this lock file manually. Now to login...
> If I can't get any other ideas I think I'll just have to install RH7.1 over
> RH7.0 and lose all the software I've installed and downloaded. It would,
> however, solve the problem of my root (/) partition showing 100% usage when
> I 'df'. When I tried 'du -S | sort -n' it showed that I had a number of
They can be deleted manually after logging in. Root should prob still have 5% disk
space reserved for it.
> non-deleted cores as the largest users of diskpace apart from StarOffice5.2,
> but when I deleted (some of) them as root, my root partition still showed
> 100% usage. Now I can't even log on .....
Can you login as root by using the other consoles under Ctrl-Alt-F2 ?
ie do you get a login prompt when you do the above three finger.
Mike
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