[H-GEN] Login/X/Startup problems

[Greg Black]

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Conor Cunningham wrote:

| I recently reset my linux box and upon rebooting I received a strange 
| error msg flashing up with intervals of about 10 seconds causing the 
| screen to blank.
| 
| The msg read:
| 
| wintermute login: According to var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running 
| (867), but seems to have been murdered mysteriously.

Sounds as though your method of rebooting did not give the X server 
enough time to exit cleanly.  Try removing /var/run/gdm.pid and see 
if gdm starts up properly.

If that fixes it, you might do well to include a line in your boot 
scripts to do it as a matter of course to prevent this problem from 
happening in the future.

Greg

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