My friend here has a problem and since he isn't a member of the list, I am passing it on to you. The problem description is as below. Dear Vilas, I just write down some problem description I met yesterday. I think this problem should be a bug of RedHat Linux 7.0 or RTLinux 3.0(final). I am just not sure about it. Did you meet the same problem on your commuter without RTLinux 3.0 installed? If this problem also occurred on your computer without the RTLinux, that should be a problem of RedHat, but if not, I think maybe the problem would come with RTLinux. Because as you see, the RTLinux 3.0 is still some bugs in it. Anyway, the followings are my problem description: When I login to the RedHat Linux 7.0 with RTLinux Kernel 3.0(final). Everything looks OK. But I do not know at what time, the problem happens: I can not reboot my computer even I login as root. And when I type in "whoami", the following message shows: "whoami: cannot find username for UID 4294967295". Then, I can not restart my computer, I can not shut it down. When I try to "reboot" or "shutdown" or use "Ctrl+Alt+Del" to restart my computer, I just log out to the login screen. At the login screen, when I choose "restart" or "halt", I just go back to the login screen without restart the computer. It says only the superuser can restart the computer even-though I logged in as root in the first place. So at last, I have to reset my computer. After I restart it with cold restart, it can login, it can run, but things becomes worse. First, as you see, when you login with the login screen, then there will show a small window in the center of the screen, it shows the current loading program, such as session, window manager, keyboard, mouse, etc. I found that there exists a unknown icon. But I remember before the problem happens, it should be a icon of "magicdev". And after I login, everything looks OK again, but I do not know after how long a period of time, I meet the same strange problem again. I can not reboot my computer and have to reset it again. Then this time, in the startup process, there are 3 unknown icon in it. The window manager is lost, I was told by the Gnome Disk Guide that my window manager does not work well, something is wrong with it. I lost the frame of any open window, I can not change the size of them, I can not move it. So I have to change my window manager to twm. I am so lucky, the twn works. When I try to change back to sawfish, I can not, it always says that there is something wrong with it. So I think there should be something wrong with sawfish, I download the "sawfish-0.30.3-10.i386.rpm" from your website(RedHat) and reinstall it(before I reinstall it, I have to uninstall it first). But the problem still exists. At last, I give up. I backup all my data and reinstall the whole system again. But yesterday morning, the problem came to my computer again. It is just 4 days after I reinstall everything. I have to reinstall everything again. So dear sir, please tell me how to solve this problem, I do not want to reinstall my computer again. Thanks in advance _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ---------------------------------------------- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
