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Ive just installed 9.1 on an old HD to try it out. It installed fine, but after rebooting it eventually gets to a screen saying "localhostlogin"

 

I tried entering my nickname, but nothing happens. After i enter it a few times i get

 

"Id 1 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 mins"

 

Which is just all kinds of bad :cry:

 

cheers in advance for any help

- Fudgeum

 

PS. ive already tried typing in "startx", didnt work :(

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Its in my older pc, so its a GF2. But its only loggin in, so i dont think it would be the card.

 

However, after rebooting linux ran what appeared to be a scandisk type program. It asked if i would like to fix the errors (data may be lost) to which i said yes.

 

After rebooting again linux allowed me to login, but (remembering the other post)

 

i typed "startx"

 

then i got...

 

"giving up

xinit: no such file or directory (errno 2): unable to cnnect to X server

xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error"

 

*depression*

 

is there a link anywhere to a list of linux commands and what they do? (preferably printable)

 

thanks again

- Dave

 

PS. other specs.

 

AMD thunderbird 1333

ASUS MB (can find out what type if neccessary)

nvidia GF2

what appears to bve the nosiest pc fan on the planet (watercooling has me spoilt)

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I still think we're dealing with a video problem. I have a gf2gts and have no need to spend any money on a video card!

 

At any rate, when you installed, did you install both x and a manager, like kde or gnome? The init might be missing because, since x has never successfully launched, there has been no opportunity to make an init! Try this: when booting, be sure you are launching without x. If you're using a bootloader, hitting escape and typing "linux 3" will do this.

 

Once you are at a login, log in and navigate to /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Look for an error there, such as monitor refresh or card id. Or post it here, and we can all look at it!! :lol:

 

I am assuming you are using the default driver that come with mandrake, yes?

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Right, it definatly has x, but i just took the defalut settings for the others during installation (so im assuming it has kde/gnome)

 

i logged in and typed "/etc/X11/XF86Config"

and got "Permission denied"

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Im also assuming im using the default driver, i havent done anything to it.

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When booting up i get the choice of linux, linux-nonfb, failsafe and floppy.

 

I pressed escape and typed in "linux 3" and, after logging in, typed "startx" it appeared to try and start (so it looks like it is graphics settings) but then went back to the login prompt with (ive just picked out the important looking non-generic bits)

 

X Free 86 version 4.3.0

 

Fatal server error

Could not open default font "fixed"

 

XIO: Fatal error 104 (connection reset by peer) on X server ":0.0" after 0 requests (0known processed) with0events remaining.

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Also, when loading, as it goes though all the systems (and gets the green "OK" on the right) two of mine "starting atd" and "searchinf for new hardware"

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Right, more problems, after rebooting, i got

INIT: version 2.84 booting

INIT: entering runlevel 5

INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5min

(this did the same for 5-6)

INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel

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Looks like I'll be reinstalling :(

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Id 1
INIT: Id "1"

 

I don't know what the prob is but it's in an rc script when

l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1 is executed in /etc/inittab.

id:5:initdefault:



# System initialization.

si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit



l0:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0

l1:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1

l2:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2

l3:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3

l4:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4

l5:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5

l6:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

localhost:~# ls /etc/rc.d/

init.d  rc0.d  rc2.d  rc4.d  rc6.d     rc.sysinit

rc      rc1.d  rc3.d  rc5.d  rc.local  rc.modules

localhost:~#

Personally, I'd try a reinstall first....maybe something weird happened. Or do 'linux 3' again and see what inittab and XF86Config-4 looks like with cat. Login>then su to root (like this)

 

su <hit Enter>

enter_roots_password <hit Enter>

 

Your prompt should have gone frome having a $ to a # at the end of it like mine above. You can now destroy everything :P :wink:

 

cat /etc/inittab

does it look like mine above?

 

ls /etc/rc.d/

does it have the same files as mine above?

 

cat /etc/X11/XF86Config-4

does it contain this?

Section "Files"

   FontPath "unix/:-1"





does it have a complete 

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "monitor1"

   VendorName "STC"

   ModelName "eView17p"

   HorizSync 30-72

   VertRefresh 50-160

EndSection



Section "Device"

   Identifier "device1"

   VendorName "nVidia Corporation"

   BoardName "NVIDIA GeForce2 DDR (generic)"

   Driver "nv"

EndSection





does it have a complete

Section "Screen"

   Identifier "screen1"

   Device "device1"

   Monitor "monitor1"

   DefaultColorDepth 24

   Subsection "Display"

       Depth 24

       Modes "1280x1024" "1280x960" "1152x864" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"

   EndSubsection

EndSection

I don't think you have a prob with X because I don't think the scripts in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d are ever run (were xfs is for fonts) because of the prob with rc1.d and it's scripts.

localhost:~# ls /etc/rc.d/rc1.d

K00linuxconf  K10xfs      K45winbind  K60crond  K70alsa    K89internet  K97lm_sensors

K05keytable   K15gpm      K50xinetd   K60cups   K74apmd    K89portmap   S00single

K09dm         K15numlock  K56acpid    K69sound  K80random  K90network

K10devfsd     K20kheader  K60atd      K70acpi   K88syslog  K92anacron

localhost:~#

Which as you can see could take a year to figure out unless something here can be accociated with a possible error in /var/log/messages. If not.....reinstall :(

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After reading bvc's post, it might also be that your "old" hard drive has some bad sectors, in which case you may want to verify the integrity of the physical drive with a utiliy. Otherwise, data placed in bad sectors will always cause problems.

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Yeah, ive been thinking about that. Its just an old 2Gb HD we had spare that im testing linux on.

 

I tried to reinstall, but i got a load of errors... The HD is satan in box form.

 

 

 

The partitioning system that comes with linux (when you install) does it format all of the drive? Or juts part of it?

 

ie: could i stick it on an existing XP HD without losing everything

 

Thanks for all your help

- Dave

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could i stick it on an existing XP HD without losing everything
Sure, it's done all the time, but there are some things to know. You can search the board for XP* AND install (don't forget the * ---search requires 3 characters) or let Ixthusdan or someone else answer....I use win98, so I only know bits and pieces that I've read.
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I have xp as well. With xp, you're better off having not allowed it to take the entire drive. It places data on both ends of the partitions it makes, sort of preventing other programs from changing the size of its partitions. When I did this with 9.0, it wouldn't touch the xp partition. I ended up having to reinstall xp and setting the partitions up prior to installing. Then it went fine.

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Some suggested this earlier, but i got permission denied :-(

 

Ayway, ive got partitionmagic v8, so im making a parition to install ML onto :-)

 

 

 

 

If i dont come back, pray for me :-(

- Dave

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