Alas found a missing link under /usr/lib link libbz2.so.1 to libbz2.so.1.0.2 was found missing leading to the following problems. Making that link brought up the Login screen and I could login to KDE. Login to GNOME proceeded, but a question dialog-box hiding behind GNOME initialisation GUI Box, complaining of a non-responsive mixer element in the panel, was basically holding up GNOME. Answering that question, [could accidently gain access to the dialog-box by once clicking on "GNOME initialisation GUI Box" ] deleting the panel item brought GNOME up and working.
Is there a diagonastic which will alert me on any missing links, at least these essential links. Changes to any system library link can make behave a Linux box in an unpredictable manner for most novice users!! anand ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, January 7, 2006 9:58 am Subject: Re: [ilugd] FC3 GUI Logon Screen Hanging - 2 > Yet again, Ubuntu cropped up with a problem: > > Ubuntu 5.10, Breezy Badger, Kernel 2.6.12-10-386 > > Clean upto login screen, after giving logon credentials I got a > message: > "GDM could not write to your authorization file. This could mean > that you are out of disc space or that your home directory could > not be opened for writing. In any case, it is not possible to log > in. Please contact your System Administrator" > > I was dropped to shell in my home directory. > > I then rebooted the system and at the GRUB boot option, I changed > the 'ro' option to 'rw'. It was normal again, and thats how I am > able to send this message. > > But I have space on the disk, but how come "that your home > directory could not be opened for writing"? > > anand > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Saturday, January 7, 2006 8:08 am > Subject: [ilugd] FC3 GUI Logon Screen Hanging > > > Using Fedora Core 3, Kernel 2.6.12-1.1381_FC3. > > > > Of late I started getting the following message: > > > > "Could not start the X Server 9your graphical environment) due to > > some internal error. Please contact your System Administrator or > > check your syslog to diagonose. In the meantime this display will > > be disabled. Please restart gdm when the problem is corrected" > > > > At first I faced this problem when probably my machine got forced- > > switchoff. So I thought there could be disk inconsistency. I did > > 'fsck -y' on the system. Yet the sme problem. Then I deleted > > .gnome* folders. I used to get back to a working system. > > > > Yesterday again the same story. Now the bootup proceeds cleanly > to > > just before the Logon screen would have appeared. But instead of > > logon screen I get into a 'wait state' with the 'damru' not going > > away, a perennial state. I could 'switchdesk' and get kde but not > > xfce. I could do this by removing '/tmp/.X0-lock' and booting > into > > text mode - logging in - and then startx. > > > > Strangely enough similar problem showed up on ubuntu which is a > > different partition. I got a 'Question Dialog" which could not > > display its contents - again a wait state. However, with some of > > the above 'shooting in the dark' procedures I could get Ubuntu > > working but not GNOME in my FC3 partition. > > > > I have not disabled udev, though on Google I could find > references > > to such steps. I don't know what it means!! > > > > It seems I need some basics. > > > > anand > > > > Anand Shankar > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > > > Anand Shankar > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > Anand Shankar _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
