On Saturday 19 February 2005 09:32, Andrew Zschetzsche wrote: > This last week I got a new harddrive for my iBook G4, so I put the new > one in and put the old one in a USB2.0/FireWire enclosure. So far I've > been able to: > 1. Get my OS X partition copied over > 2. Installed YDL 4.0 from the CD's to properly set up my linux > partitions > 3. Used a Gentoo bootstrap CD to copy over the contents of the old > partition to the new partition, making sure to preserve permissions. > 4. Booted under YDL on the new disk and ran ybin. > > I can boot YDL fine, no problems, but I can't start X properly. GDM > begins, but then dies after five attempts. When I startx under my user > account, i can (but it just boots AfterStep). If I startx as root, (i > know, not a good idea), i get errors regarding starting KDE. > > So GNOME (at least GDM) and KDE, or something between the two, is > broken. > You could start by reading /var/log/messages to see which error exactly gdm or X is reporting. This often helps already finding the culprit.
Additionally, you could look into the following link: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue46/tag/5.html The article is quite old, but it has helped me on a similar problem. Cause could be a stale PID (lock-)file for gdm, or X. This might be why X refuses to start. Cheers, Geert Jan > Any ideas, or any suggestions on how I should duplicate the partitions? > > Thanks, > Andy _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
