Error Messages

sbleecker · 10-09-2005, 07:44 PM

What is this Strange Error message?

After reinstalling Yellow Dog on a Mac PowerPC, I got this flashing error message;

According to /var/run/gmd.pid gmd was already running, (number) but seems to have been murdered mysteriously.

It keeps flashing off and on, and will not let me do anything except Control/Alt/Del to restart, then after reloading it starts all over again.

What is going on, and how do I stop it?

Tinkster · 10-09-2005, 07:54 PM

By manually kiling the pid file?

sbleecker · 10-09-2005, 07:56 PM

How do I do that?

Tinkster · 10-09-2005, 08:14 PM

As root (from init 1 - pass that as a parameter to the kernel):
rm /var/run/gmd.pid

sbleecker · 01-05-2006, 05:36 PM

OK, this is happening again, so how do I stop the flashing screen so I can lon in as root and enter the comman above?
I don't remember how I stopped it before, I have reinstalled a couple different versions of LINUX, (Linux PPC 2000, Yellow Dog, and some others) off and on the last few months. I may have only stopped it by re-installing LINUX again, and again, and now it is back.