Re: gdm.pid

[Steve Borho <steve borho myip org>]

On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:27:20AM -0500, SBTM wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Let me tell you the problem and then tell you what I did. I fired up
> my linux box this morning (after my wife finished using win98) and
> would not give me the login prompt (the GUI version of it), in fact,
> it kept changing from a high resolution to text mode with a clik in
> between. I never got to see the prompt. Anyways, after a wait of 5
> minutes and all this while it changing back and forth, I get this long
> list of error:
> 
> "According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (313) but seem
> to have been murdered myseriously" 7 of these messages.
> 
> INIT: Id "x"  resampling(?) too fast = disabled for 5 minutes

Your X server is dieing.  Edit /etc/inittab and change the initial
runlevel from 5 to 3, then reboot.  When it gets back up, login from the
console and run 'startx >& xerrors'.  Your X error messages be piped to
the xerrors file and you'll be able to tell what happened.

-- 
Steve Borho