The Friday 2005-02-04 at 06:56 -0600, devosc wrote:
I ran the /etc/rc.d/xdm start and it just said 'done'.
runlevel 5 failed because the server failed to initialise. Do init 3, then init 5, then look at the logs. Typically it is a problem with card or driver.
I didn't make any changes within the system *immediately* prior to this problem... even then at most all I have doen is just perform online updates... and its been at least a week since I did the last online update....
my cmd line usage isn't great: but after more ...XFree86.0.log
Use "less" instead. Or 'mc'.
it says -XSERVTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.X11-unix) failed, errno = 13 _XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
Is 'tmp' full? Delete '/tmp/.X11-unix', perhaps.
What would happen if I ran the install disks again? could it be repaired... ?
This is not windows :-p -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson