Hi all,

I deleted all the contents of the /tmp/ folder while X is running.
rm -R /tmp/*

Now the X is continuously restarting without showing the login screen. Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks.

kill X completely
press CTRL_ALT_F1
as root
then restart X

Hi repo,

I tried killing gdm and then started it.

The X windows started but its restarting again and again without even asking for the login password.

Thanks.

Hi repo,

I use fedora so I have reinstalled the following software groups using local yum install.
1. 'GNOME Desktop Environment'
2. 'X Window System'

The following steps would be helpful for fedora/redhat users:
0. Boot into runlevel 3. You can do this by pressing any key at the grub startup, then pressing 'e' to edit the kernel parameters and appending the 'kernel ...' line with '3'. So the line looks like
1. log in as root and mount your fedora DVD into /mnt/fedora9
2. Create a local yum repo file 'fedora-local.repo' in /etc/yum.repos.d/ with contents:
3. In all the other files in the yum.repos.d folder, for every repo disable it by editing the line 'enabled=1' to 'enabled=-' where ever you find it. (make a note of it for reverting the changes later! if you forget you will have difficulty in figuring out which repos have to be enabled!!)
4. Now uninstall the 'GNOME Desktop Environment' package group.
If you use KDE, then you need to uninstall 'KDE (K Desktop Environment)'
5. Uninstall the 'X Windows System' package group.
6. Reinstall GNOME or KDE or both if you wish.
or / and
7. Reinstall 'X Windows System'
8. Reboot.

That kicked action into my X system. !! Hopefully, it should work for others too. Anyone using other distro's can also work on something like this.

Life teaches lessons in many ways, so does linux - DONOT DELETE /tmp WHEN USING X WINDOWS!!