[KLUG Members] Ohh no..

[Bruce Smith]

> I am running linux off my laptop (right now i am using BSware pro)  And today i
> started it up and for some reason it hung where it starts up sendmail... well, i
> waited paitently and it got past that point.  but after it was done loading it
> didnt bring up the gui like it normally does, just the prompt.  so i log in, try

By chance, did you have your PCMCIA network card in the PC, and
you were NOT hooked to the network?  If so, either plug in your
network cable, or take out the card.

> to start x, but nothing happens.. hmm..

Oh, I bet something happened if you typed "startx" (no space),
like an error message, which would be helpful to diagnose this.

If the error rolls off the screen, pipe everything to a file:

  startx > errorfile.txt 2>&1

> okay, i login under root, and it says i
> have mail.  so i read the mail and this is the msg:
> /etc/cron.daily/tmpwatch
> error: lstat () of directory /var/cach/man/X11R6/cat? failed: No such file or
> directory.

Completely unrelated, happens on all my Redhat systems.
Only a warning, just ignore it.

You can "fix" it by creating some directories to make 
it happy, but I don't remember which ones off hand.

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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