One thing you can do is take the system into single user mode and modify your inittab to remove the default runlevel from 5 to 3. Reboot the system. This will allow the system to come up but XWindows will not start. This will give you a chance to fix your Xwindows. Once that is fixed you can run a startx manaully to see if X will start. If not try again. Al Smith alcsmith@xxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:xfree86-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Vollman, Mike Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 1:36 PM To: XFree86@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: cannot run X server When I turn on my computer I can not open up the gui interface for redhat linux 7 due to an X server error. The screen blinks on and off a couple of times and then drops into a diagnostic mode which does not take care of the problem. The contents of the log /var/log/XFree86.0.log are as follows: Collect: Cannot write ./dfh3IOlLR008742 (sm_io_flush||sm_io_error, uid=51, gid=51): Input/output error Queueup: cannot create queue temp file ./tfhB3IOlLR008742, uid=51 permission denied I have a lot of important files on this machine that I cannot touch in single user mode because they are windows files held within vmware. Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Thank You Mike Vollman Administrator Sarcom Information Services
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