x keeps restarting in endless loop

eggbert74 · 08-27-2008, 07:32 AM

Hi,

Whenever I try to start gdm and/or X, it keeps restarting in an infinite loop. Not sure if it's X or gdm that's crashing.

This all started after I ran alsaconf as root from the console. It somehow hosed the permissions of roots home dir, and /home as well. I tried chmoding these back to 700 and 755 to no avail. The permissions, are just all out of whack, and I'm not sure what they're supposed to be.

Can someone please help? I am running TinyMe (a pclos remaster)

Thanks.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 08-27-2008, 08:34 AM

Do you get the login screen but get kicked out when you try to log in?

indeliblestamp · 08-27-2008, 08:37 AM

Can you see anything interesting in ~/.xsession-errors?

eggbert74 · 08-27-2008, 09:13 AM

It never makes it to the login screen. It tries to initially load gdm, and then just restarts over and over.

The only thing it says in .xsession-errors is something like...

s2u: cookies for :0 = '<some long uid>'
The application 's2u' lost its connection to the display :0.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or your killed/destroyed the application.

matthewg42 · 08-27-2008, 09:28 AM

Try to find your xorg log files and look for lines with EE on them. These are fatal errors and should give you some more information which should make it possible to diagnose the problem.

Where the xorg logfile goes varies from distro to distro. Typical locations include /var/log and the name might include xorg or x11.

eggbert74 · 08-27-2008, 09:49 AM

I looked in /var/log and found a bunch of numbered Xorg.log files, so I did a 'cat Xorg*.log | grep EE' and the only thing I saw was something saying "module AIGXL not loaded", or words to that effect.

I think this has to do with permissions, cause this only started after I tried to fix the screwed up permissions that alsaconf left me with.

matthewg42 · 08-27-2008, 10:07 AM

It might be that the driver you are using does not support AIGLX, but it is requested.

Edit your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (again, I'm not 100% sure if this is the right location on pclos) and look for a line which looks something like this:

Code:

Option "AIGLX" "true"

Comment out that line by putting a # at the start of the line.

__spc__ · 08-28-2008, 02:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by {BBI}Nexus{BBI}

Do you get the login screen but get kicked out when you try to log in?

I do yes - it just started happening.

Root logs-in, but no other users can.

All I have done since I last successfully logged-in was mess around with the sound devices in KDE to try and get avidemux to work with audio...

Any ideas where to go next?

EDIT: I started the system in runlevel 3 and logged in successfully as a non-root user. When I then tried to 'startx', I received an X error message saying:

"Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation."

What should I do to remedy this?

__spc__ · 08-28-2008, 07:24 AM

Solved.

It seem, with 'df' I had indeed run out of disk space - it just took me an age to find a file hiding in /home/USER/.local/share/Trash/files/ that was 9GB (an AVI rip).

Fantasio · 08-28-2008, 09:08 AM

Probably due to your /tmp is full

__spc__ · 08-28-2008, 11:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fantasio

Probably due to your /tmp is full

/tmp was empty (ish)...

matthewg42 · 08-28-2008, 12:16 PM

maybe /var/tmp ?

What does this command output:

Code:

df -h

__spc__ · 08-28-2008, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matthewg42

maybe /var/tmp ?

What does this command output:

Code:

df -h

Shows I have loads of space - now the 9GB AVI's been disposed of!

(Mu Linux partition is 15GB, so the AVI pretty much filled it!)

matthewg42 · 08-28-2008, 02:07 PM

Please copy paste the output.

__spc__ · 08-28-2008, 04:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by matthewg42

Please copy paste the output.

Problem is solved, but here is the output regardless:

Code:

bash-3.1# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5              15G  5.2G  8.6G  38% /
/dev/sda1              25G   17G  8.1G  68% /Windows
/dev/sda2             194G  162G   33G  84% /Data
/dev/sdb1             233G  233G     0 100% /HomeMovies
tmpfs                 503M     0  503M   0% /dev/shm
bash-3.1#

I recall now, as the user, that I deleted the .AVI file, but the trashcan would not allow me to empty it. I thought nothing more of it - until now!