mnichols@nmsu.edu (Mark Nichols) (10/29/89)
I seem to have jammed my next up nicely. When I boot the machine all appears ok until the screen clears and the login window is supposed to appear. Instead I get a blank screen with no login window. I am fairly certain that it is because the WindowManager is not able to start up for some reason. Does the WindowServer produce any kind of error messages ? Where would it put them? There are no erros in messages or syslog. Any ideas ? I would hate to rebuild the system just because of this. Mark Nichols mnichols@nmsu.edu Systems Programmer Networking / Workstation Support
rogerj@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Roger Jagoda) (10/31/89)
In article <356@opus.NMSU.EDU> mnichols@nmsu.edu (Mark Nichols) writes: > >I seem to have jammed my next up nicely. When I boot the machine all >appears ok until the screen clears and the login window is supposed to >appear. Instead I get a blank screen with no login window. I am fairly >certain that it is because the WindowManager is not able to start up >for some reason. Does the WindowServer produce any kind of error messages ? >Where would it put them? There are no erros in messages or syslog. Any >ideas ? I would hate to rebuild the system just because of this. > Well, from the experiences we've had, you just might. Check in /usr/adm /messages and grep for MEDIA FAILURE messages. If you see many of these with "failed after nine retries...MEDIA FAILURE" you will more than likely have to rebuild or maybe even replace the drive (we did the later). Of course, this assumes you've not changed the top few lines in /etc/ttys to start the console window INSTEAD of the window manager....I assume you haven't, but check, it's easy enough to have uncommented the wrong line...another vote for abandoning the ancient flat files in favor of NetInfo (just couldn't resist!...:-) ). Roger Jagoda FQOJ@CORNELLA.CIT.CORNELL.EDU WorkStation Support, Cornell University > > >Mark Nichols >mnichols@nmsu.edu >Systems Programmer >Networking / Workstation Support