[LUNI] GUI fails to start when restarting etch or ubuntu

Scott Lockwood scott at cashnetusa.com
Wed Apr 18 22:27:37 CDT 2007


On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 22:18 -0500, Branko Kotur wrote:
> You'll need to take a look at your /var/log/Xorg.0.log file to see
> what error 
> messages come up.  Specifically any lines that start with either WW or
> EE.
> 
> However, I did have a situation with Kubuntu 6.10 where it failed to
> start X 
> if I installed Gnome.  I never bothered to figure out the real cause
> of the 
> problem other then uninstall Gnome.  I don't know if this is the same 
> problem, but I thought I'd mention it just in case. 

I had this problem once. turns out, /tmp was full, and X refuses to
start if it can't create a 0 byte file in /tmp.

-- 
W. Scott Lockwood III



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