On 19/08/10 13:28, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Clive,
Following day after several 'boots' it suddenly started intermittent
failing during the start with:
(process:349): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user
id(0)
By failing you mean there's no graphical login screen provided by gdm?
That warning *may* be unconnected, based on a bit of Googling.
Yes. Locks up after showing the fault warning, no button pressing is
acted on even Cntr/Alt/del. Screen is black, like a terminal window,
fault shown at top line.
If I shut down
How do you commence that? Just trying to get a picture of what's
available.
Nothing works except by pressing the power button. (configured to shut
down). Appears to close correctly, no indication of anything untoward
happening.
When moving the partitions I did not re-do the partition table: should
I?
No, don't think that's connected.
OK
Have a look in /var/log/gdm. An `ls -ltr' command will list the
most recently modified ones at the end. The last one will probably be
:0.log, meaning the log file for the X server's :0 display. Perhaps
there's something of interest.
Just got back from Walsall/NEC so will look tomorrow.
Just looked - var/log/gdm is empty and is locked(?)
Cheers Clive
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