[UCLA-LUG] gnome startup

[witten@linux.ucla.edu]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 09:55:36AM -0800, KIRSCH,BRADLEY L wrote:
> I have another basic question for anyone who can help.  After installing
> redhat 6.1, my linux system would boot into gnome, complete with the
> redhat logo and login prompt.  Last weekend, however, my system froze, and
> I was forced to do a hard reset on my machine.  Upon rebooting, my system
> defaulted into command line mode, and I couldn't startx or initx.
> Interestingly, my boot disk used to get me into gnome also, but now it too
> spits me into commmand line mode and I can't/don't know how to start
> gnome.  For reference, here is the error I get when trying startx, and by
> the way what is the proper way to get into gnome from the command line?
> 
> Fatal server error:
> 
> Could not create lockfile in /tmp/.tX0-lock
> _X11 TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111
> giving up
> 
> xinit: Connection refused (errno 111):unable to connect to xserver
> xinit: No such process (errno 3):server error
> 
> Also, everything seems to be fine on startup (ie noninteractive setup
> shows all OK upon booting) but when I shutdown from commmand-line mode one
> category shows up failed:
> 
> shutdown xfont server [FAILED]
> 
> Can anyone offer any advice/tell me how to fix this problem?  Thanks in
> advance,

My dad's system had a very similar problem a few days ago. The machine was
shutdown improperly, and when it came back up, the X font server refused to
start. You might try running "xfs" as root and then trying to startx. If
that works, you know what the problem was. If xfs refuses to start, look at
the error messages that xfs gives you and try to fix what it says is wrong.

> 
> Brad Kirsch
> bkirsch@ucla.edu

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