Halt on boot, strange message

spacemoth · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2004 Posts: 31 Location: Canada

Ran rc-update after update system files, and stupidly overwrote some config files (such as fstab, checkroot, console fonts, rc.conf and a few others). I fixed most of them, but now that I reboot, I get:

snowbum · Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 3:00 am Post subject:

Dude or dudette, if you want help, you've got to post your system info. I mean xosd? Where does it stop? What else is displayed? Do you get past Lilo? Does the kernel load?
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David_Escott · l33t Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 952 Location: Boston, MA

xosd is a Xfree86 app. Which means that if it is trying to start then you must have X. I bet you have the system set to automatically log you in to a default user with a graphical environment (GNOME KDE etc.) You can always (unless things go badly) switch over to a terminal by pressing Ctrl-Alt-FX where X is a number 1-6 and then back to the graphical terminal (ie GNOME KDE etc) with Ctrl-Alt-F7.

What has happened is simply that your xsession contains a call to xosd which is screwed up. If you use gnome look in ~/.gnome/session. Delete any files containing the string xosd and all should be kosher (or remerge xosd from the terminal).