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Old 02-25-2008, 01:10 PM   #1
mjh5598
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unable to logon to the server console via Xwindows


I get the following error:

Cannot start session due to some internal error.

then i click on ok, i get the following error:

your session lasted less then 10 seconds, this could be due to not enough diskspace or some other problems look to .xsession-errors file.. ..but i do not htink that sounds right.

If i see the additional error on the screen, i get
/etc/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp
/etc/PreSession/Default : running /usr/bin/sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x
session_child_run: Could not execute /etc/gdm/Xsession default






the .xsession-errors file says alot of things..but the first entries are :

Xsession: X session started for root at Mon Feb 25 13:34:37 EST 2008
SESSION_MANAGER=local/rmachine:/tmp/.ICE-unix/6807
Window manager warning: Failed to read saved session file /root/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms: Failed to open file '/root/.metacity/sessions/default0.ms': No such file or directory
** Message: Not starting remote desktop server

** (gnome-panel:6868): WARNING **: Failed to establish a connection with GDM: No such file or directory
XGetSelectionOwner: old version of gcin or gcin is not running ??
... try to start a new gcin server /usr/bin/gcin
gcin get env LC_CTYPE= LC_ALL= LANG=en_US.UTF-8
gcin will use UTF-8 as the default encoding
load_gtab_list /usr/share/gcin/table/gtab.list
-- /tmp/gcin-root/socket-:0.0-gcin
connection via TCP is disabled



This is my hd -h



Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg_main-lv_root
493G 153G 315G 33% /
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 96K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 2.0G 0 2.0G 0% /dev/shm
/dev/md0 274M 51M 209M 20% /boot
/dev/mapper/vg_main-bk_data
493G 380G 89G 82% /bk_data



Any ideas would be greatly appriciated.
mjh
 
  


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