Redhat 7.2 will not gon to graphical envir...

kevinm2 · 06-07-2005, 04:41 PM

When I restarted my web server running RedHat 7.2 it didnot go to the graphical environment (Gnome). It stays in the terminal mode. Any ideas why this happens?

benjithegreat98 · 06-07-2005, 10:36 PM

You can check to see which runlevel it started in. It should start to runlevel 5. You could look at /etc/inittab to see what it is set at.

kevinm2 · 06-08-2005, 10:27 AM

Thanks for the reply.

It is running in runlevel 5
x:5:respawn:/etc/x11/prefdm -nodaemon

I think my problem is the disk space!

tmp #df tells me
FileSystem........1k-block........Used.......Available........Use%...........Monted on
/dev/ha5...........380679.....380679..................0........100%........................./

When I look at /tmp; I have the following files that are rather big in size. Do you think I should delete them?

Files are
tmp # ls
formpost formpost-4 sess_5894351....
formpost-1 mcop-root sess_342432...
formpost-2 orbit-kevin sess_342432...
formpost-3 orbit-root sess_342432...

tmp #ls -l
-rw------- 1 root root 26853376 Jun 7 13:16 formpost
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 7 13:17 formpost-1
-rw------- 1 root root 4096 Jun 7 13:17 formpost-2
-rw------- 1 root root 0 Jun 7 13:17 formpost-3
-rw------- 1 root root 39903232 Jun 7 13:36 formpost-4
drwx------ 2 root root 1024 Oct 14 2004 mcop-root

Do you think that this is the problem? And if ues should I delete any of thes files?

benjithegreat98 · 06-08-2005, 12:29 PM

Yes, I would try and delete those.

You can also look in /var/log/ and look at your X's log file to see if there is any indication in there as to what happened.

Will it start up if you type "startx"?

kevinm2 · 06-08-2005, 12:55 PM

No, It won't start with startx.
When I do it, It seems that it wants to go to X, but it can't go in, and it goes back to the terminal mode.

So is it safe to delete them?

benjithegreat98 · 06-08-2005, 01:38 PM

The /tmp/formpost files seem to be related to Mozilla. You can probably safely delete them, but if you can, I'd move them to a drive or server w/ more space, just to be sure.

Maybe you could look for other things to delete too. Old .rpm files, maybe old source files from programs you've installed.

kevinm2 · 06-08-2005, 01:54 PM

Benji - You are correct. They do belong to mozilla. I was trying to backup some files over to my other server yesterday, when mozilla crashed. And obviously the cashed files were over at /tmp.
So, I went a head and deleted the files. Guess what, everything went back to normal.

Thank you again for your quick replies and help. -- Kevin