Login Impossible

[Peffe]

So I take it I have everyone stumped, because this happens regularly now and I can't find a solution. I'm thinking about switching to a different distro to see how that works out.

[Skiboy]

Reading over everything an dI noticed you had upgraded from RH7 to FC6, correct?
Then you reinstalled FC6?
When you reinstalled did you remove all Linux partitions?
Also it is recommended that when you go from one version to the next you do a fresh install and not an upgrade install.

[Peffe]

Correct. I had Red Hat 7. This was too out of date to run on the current hardware I'm using. So by recommendation, I downloaded FC 6, burned the images to disc and rebooted with the first disc in the drive.

I chose to do a full (fresh) installation, and not an upgrade. The current volumes were formatted (with the exception of my windows partition for dual boot capabilities), and FC6 was installed fresh.

The first run goes smoothly, but when I logout or reboot, I run into this problem.

[Skiboy]

grub.conf:

#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core(2.6.18-1.2869.fc6)
         root (hd0,4)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
         initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.img
title Other
      rootnoverify (hd0,0)
      chainloader +1

inittab:

id:5:initdefault:

si::sysinit:/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

10:0:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 0
11:1:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 1
12:2:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 2
13:3:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 3
14:4:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 4
15:5:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 5
16:6:wait:/etc/rc.d/rc 6

ud::once:/sbin/update

ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now

pf::powerfail:/sbin/shutdown -f -h +2 "Power Failure; System Shutting Down"

1:12345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty1
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6

x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon

Ok the above text x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/X11/xdm -nodaemon, see if you have a /usr/bin/X11 directory.
If you do see if you have a program xdm in there.
Get back to me with the answer.

[Peffe]

Ok Ski...here's what I did.

1) I rebooted with the install disc so I could launch "linux rescue".
2) chroot /mnt/sysimage
3) cd usr
4) cd bin
5) Tried cd X11, but it said the directory doesn't exist

So nope, I don't have X11 director in /usr/bin/

[cybersmurf]

Me thinks that you are changing the hostname..

If so, you need to change it in /etc/hosts AND /etc/sysconfig/network

You can change it in network and it will change your hostname, but unless you change it also in hosts you Linux scripts will say "wait a minute, computer x is trying to start xterm, I dont have x on my list, ok block"

Simply put, if you dont update the hostname in BOTH places you get errors out the wazu and you cant bring up your GUI.

Cybersmurf