I'm running RH9 (2.4.20-8) on an AMD 2400XP with 1GB RAM. Today I updated to the latest up2date (yes, that's another topic!), and caught up with some packages, including gdm-2.4.1.3-5.1.i386.rpm and the latest cdrecord. I tried blanking a CD-RW disk in a terminal window in X (this always worked fine before), and cdrecord hung on me, and I was unable to kill the process. In the end I tried logging out. The system wouldn't shut down normally, so I pressed the reset button. Now I am unable to boot my system. Not even using the rescue boot diskette and typing "Linux 1". This is from a normal boot: (...) VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Red Hat nash version 3.4.42 starting Loading jbd.o module Journalled Block Device driver loaded Loading ext3.0 module Mounting /proc filesystem Creating block devices Creating root device Mounting root filesystem kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Freeing unused kernel memory: 128 freed INIT: version 2.84 booting INIT: Entering runlevel: 5 INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel (Then after 5 minutes:) INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes INIT: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes When I press CTRL+ALT+DEL I see: shutdown: warning: cannot open /var/run/shutdown.pid I googled the problem, and there were suggestions about inittab, but most of the suggestions seemed to point at other problems. I tried using Tom's rootboot, but he didn't allow enough /dev/hda dirs for my usage, so,I booted from a Linux install CDROM and mounted my system as per the directions. The last line of inittab reads: x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon There is an if statement in /etc/X11/prefdm that led me to look at /etc/sysconfig/desktop to discover the single line: DESKTOP="GNOME" I had just upgraded my gdm. I can't figure out how to edit any files in rescue mode, not that I know what files to edit. Any suggestions? TIA, --Phillip Rose -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
