adam@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Adam Glass) (06/20/91)
Heh. I was, uh, 'cleaning up' my hard drive last night, and when I logged out, and later tried to log back in, the following happened: the password was accepted (i.e., the login window went away), and the NeXT icon appeared at the top of the dock, but a split second later, it disappeared, and the login window was presented again (nothing else appeared on the screen, just the NeXT icon.) Well, that's odd, I thought, so I rebooted, and brought it up with 'bsd -sx' so I could watch it. Everything seemed fine. Except my drive with the home directories wasn't mounted. So I fsck'd it -- nothing wrong -- and then mounted it. I checked /etc/fstab, and it's listed there, with the right modifiers, so I shrugged and rebooted in multiuser mode. This time, I didn't even get a login window. Just a blank screen. So I rebooted with 'bsd -x', so I could watch. No errors, save for the following message: "Wed Jun 19 23:24:31 EDT 1991 geidi-prime WindowServer: Problem starting the NeXTdimension.psdrvr driver. Continuing." But we get that error here at work too, and the machines here boot up fine, so *that*'s not it. Obviously, it would seem that this problem has something to do with my housecleaning job last night. I've restriced distribution to MIT 'cuz I seem to remember someone posting similar problems to c.s.n before, and I don't want to spew to the whole net when likely there are people on campus that know what to do. (Here are the paths that I 'rm -rf'ed all together: /NextLibrary/Documentation/[Ariel,Motorola] /NextLibrary/[References,Literature,Fax,Packages,TeX] /usr/tex /usr/lib/emacs/info /usr/lib/emacs/lock I don't think I deleted anything, but nonetheless was tempted to, in the following directories: /usr/lib/transcript /usr/lib/NextPrinter /usr/lib/indexing/files) Thanks in advance... Adam, proof yet again that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, especially around unix, and *especially* when you're the superuser.