On December 28, 2007 10:03:32 Ken Moffat wrote: > OK, I admit it, I've failed the latest module in "administering > your own systems", but I'm out of ideas about how to track down what > is wrong. > > I was using an existing system, with gdm, to build a new clfs system > in an xterm. Unfortunately, the new system didn't boot so I went > back to the host system and into chroot to check a few possibilities > and recompile the kernel with a few things no longer modular. > > Didn't work, so back to the host, and after gdm was invoked the > screen went black, but didn't get as far as painting an X background. > I was able to get a tty, and changed to runlevel 3. From there I > logged the output of 'startx' and dicovered it couldn't open a temp > file : '/' was totally full, fortunately /home still had a lot of > space. Assuming ext3fs, what is the output from "/sbin/dumpe2fs -h /dev/hda?" for your host filesystem? In particular, what does Reserved block count, Free blocks and Free inodes report? What is the "Filesystem state"? We can eliminate a fs problem if all looks normal here. > > Managed to free up a reasonable amount of space. Rebooted > (runlevel 5), still didn't get any further than a black screen. > Back to runlevel 3, startx didn't, but this time there was nothing > unusual in the log. > > At this point it occurred to me that maybe I'd changed something on > the host when I was trying to fix the problems in the new system. > No worries, I had a backup of everything except the latest kernel > and modules, so I wiped the system and installed the backup.
Where is your dri (if required) module? depmod and/or ldconfig required? > (fortunately, I have a third system on the disk :-) And then I > removed the space-hogs (some static '.a' "libraries", and some > documentation) to get back to 82% in-use. But it made no difference > - I can't see anything in the logs that looks unusual, and I'm out > of ideas. Sod's Law says it's something obvious that I'm > overlooking - any suggestions ? > Is this obvious enough :) Did you remove the tmp X files in /root and /tmp? Shawn -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
