Subject: Re: Won't startup after 2.1 upgrade
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Mon Nov 12 2001 - 13:37:21 MST
There is most likely a problem with the X configuration, causing infinite
respawning because X won't boot. As was instructed by an earlier email, boot
into runlevel 3 so you can troubleshoot at the command line. Run startx to
see why X is complaining. I had a similar problem because of a bad video
config, which may be an issue in your case.
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
> From: Marc Stergionis <stermarc@home.com>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 13:17:01 -0700
> To: YellowDogLinux <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: Won't startup after 2.1 upgrade
>
> I had YDL2 running well on my Power 100 (8100 clone). I upgraded
> using yup and that went well, things worked nicely and appeared
> updated when I logged out and in.
>
> Problem now, is that after I restarted, I get an endless loop from
> the text login window to the attempt to start X. The machine was set
> to automatically boot into X. But the text login appears momentarily
> (not long enough to type in my username) and then goes to the gray X
> screen, but the X "cursor" doesn't move and then it flashes back to
> the text login screen.
>
> ... of course now I see why text logins are recommended :(
>
> The Nubus port is a 2.4.5 kernel.
>
> I've tried the combinations of the control and function keys, but
> get nothing from that.
>
> Any way to get past this, or did I break it?
>
> -ms
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> Marc Stergionis
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