Help! Boot problem in RedHat

[Michelle Lowman]

When I'm in runlevel 5, it says that xfs is started. It briefly pauses at

rh login:

and I log in as root (but I have to do it quick or it'll start runlevel 3
before I can get logged in) -- that works for about two seconds, THEN it
dumps me into runlevel 3 and locks up while starting webmin.

Aaaargh.

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
[mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Bryce C
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 9:10 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Help! Boot problem in RedHat


When your dumped back to init 3, log in as root (or not.  I would and
you'll see why) and runn a quick "ps auwwx|grep xfs" to make sure the
font server is running (you may have to "startx" from another console)
and if it's not, "/etc/init.d/xfs restart".
Sorry for the sketchy details but it's hard to explain.  Simply: check
that the X font server is running.

On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 20:35, Michelle Lowman wrote:
> I made it home from the expo and started my machine up, and everything was
> fine for a while. Then I couldn't get my email because it said the disk
was
> full. I deleted some big files from my home directory (tiffs and eps files
> that I didn't really need), emptied trash, and ran df -h. It still said I
> was using 100% of my disk space.  So, being the recovering Windows junkie
> that I am, I tried to reboot.  Big mistake.
>
> Now it starts OK, goes through all the init stuff (in runlevel 5), gets to
> the point where kdm should start up (it doesn't), and restarts in runlevel
> 3. It doesn't get much past that; it locks up when starting webmin.
>
> I tried putting in the boot floppy I made during installation, and got a
> kernel panic.
>
> I thought I'd ask for help before I do anything else to screw things up.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Michelle
>
>
> Michelle Lowman
> mlowman@firstlinux.net
> http://clarityeditorial.com
>
> "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
> universe."
> - Carl Sagan
>
--
Bryce Chidester
Network Administrator
CoBryce Communications
Bryce AT BryceCo DOT Net
http://www.bryceco.net


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