gdm crash & restart problem

[Nick Holmes <nick holmes bluewave com>]

Hi,

I have dug out some mutterings from during the summer while doing an online 
search about this, suggesting that it was a problem with xfs, although I 
can find no solution documented:

I was using X, gnome & enlightenment quite happily on my laptop until this 
morning, when the system refused to open its X - login screen (boots to 
runlevel 5), and appeared to be having some form of crisis in opening the 
right display context... at first, the login prompt under console comes up 
and then it starts to spawn gdm (from inittab), flashes, and goes back 
(very briefly) to the console login prompt, before restarting again, 
flashing .... etc.

I have no idea why it is crashing, but really have to get this sorted out, 
as I am trying it out as my primary machine for a period (got bored of 
windoze).

The only thing that has been added since the last restart of this machine 
was a stalled installation of Netscape 6.  I don't know if this would cause 
this to start or not, but must assume so... although, it doesn't appear 
that the installer actually installed anything in the end!

any help with this would be most welcome.

Nick
Nick Holmes - Systems Manager
nick holmes bluewave com
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