My GUI won't start (X11) may be result of power outage
I have had this Slackware 12 system up for a while but have been messing around trying to get a smaller kernel and also think a power outage may have caused this to stop working. I had to switch the startup mode from 4 to 3 so it will finish booting. What happened was I had a power outage and when restarted I ran e2fsck on the root partition by request of the operating system upon booting and when it booted ran it on all other partitions. I did notice it move some things to a lost+found folder. When I try and boot to graphical mode it quits on the X11 desktop manager but if i boot to text display and manually run startx as root I get the following error:
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xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.3941 |
It does sounds like something got corrupted in your system when the power went out. The fact that X isn't being found is why I say this. Try reinstalling the X package and see if it works.
Forrest |
I think I have bigger problems. I have run pkgtool remotely and removes the packages fine but when I exit pkgtool I have no prompt (well I have blinking prompt but can't enter commands). Anyone other then me think I should back up important data and do a complete re-install?
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I think you should back up important data and do a complete re-install.
Forrest |
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