Very Computer

"/var/log/gdm.pid says gdm.pid is in use, but has been mysteriously
*ed"

That's not the exact message, but that's all I can remember (I'm not at
the computer in question either)

What led up to this message was I would login with a non-root id and it
would seem like X restarts.  It kept doing this repeatedly until I
rebooted, and then I got this error message.

The error message will repeat over and over with a certain number
changing each time, until I either hit CTRL-ALT-DEL or hit the reboot
button.  The screen would blank out, flicker the message for a half
second or so, and then blank out again.

Is there a solution to this problem?  Right now I can't even get to a
login screen/prompt.

--
Albert

"It is only the wisest and stupidest that cannot change."
--Confucius

Hi, I'm a relative Linux newbie (less than 5 days!!!)

I got exactly the same problem as you...except, if you are really
quick, you can log in from the console between "flickers" from X,
I logged in as root, and then typed init 1,

This killed X and let me use the console. I tracked the problem down
to an issue between IRQ's for my mouse and my ethernet card.....I
think....because in the end I put a newer ethernet card in, which
solved the flickering and the *ed gdm.pid, but Linux refused to
acknowledge the new card (insisting that the old card was still there,
but not making any network connections)

I ended up re-installing because I'd played around with so much with a
variety of settings that a clean -reinstall worked best!

Craig

Quote:>I have a really bad problem.  When I try to start my computer and go
>into linux (RH7.0), I get this error message:

>"/var/log/gdm.pid says gdm.pid is in use, but has been mysteriously
>*ed"

>That's not the exact message, but that's all I can remember (I'm not at
>the computer in question either)

>What led up to this message was I would login with a non-root id and it
>would seem like X restarts.  It kept doing this repeatedly until I
>rebooted, and then I got this error message.

>The error message will repeat over and over with a certain number
>changing each time, until I either hit CTRL-ALT-DEL or hit the reboot
>button.  The screen would blank out, flicker the message for a half
>second or so, and then blank out again.

>Is there a solution to this problem?  Right now I can't even get to a
>login screen/prompt.