Cannot start x?

billydv · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:11 pm Post subject: Cannot start x?

I am not sure of what is going on but I deleted most of the files in my /root folder in order to clean it up and now I can't reboot into X. The first thing that fails to start at boot is named, followed by hald, avahi-daemon and xdm. I then thought that maybe something in /tmp was causing the problem and deleted all in /tmp but that didn't help. Where do I go from here?
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Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Stuff in the /root folder is irrelevant to booting - it is empty by default on a new installation.

Can you start named, avahi, and so on... manually?

Is your /etc/hosts file in order?

Did you try re-emerging bind, avahi, and so on...?

billydv · Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:45 pm Post subject:

Thats what I thought, stuff in root should not matter whatsoever. I have tried starting those services manually and no go. I reemerged bind and still no go. I just issued emerge -1K @installed and I am hopeful that a reemerge of all packages will solve this. BTW, I also cannot switch terminals. I use splashutils with the framebuffer splash and I should be able to do ctr alt f2 and get a new terminal but it won't let me.
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billydv · Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 12:02 am Post subject:

Don't know what happened but this fixed it.
chmod 755 /
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Mike Hunt · Watchman Joined: 19 Jul 2009 Posts: 5287

Well, that's how it should be except /tmp which is chmod 1777 and /proc is 0555