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Ganther
7th December 2007, 08:42
Ok at first I thought my issue may have been related to this with a black screen and a cursor and yes I have ISPConfig installed as this is a test server. everything was working until I reboot that is why I tied this post first.
http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13918&highlight=ispconfig+fedora+gdm

So I tried everything listed in that thread and linking threads but nothing seems to fix the issue.

here is what is happending when I try to start the gui.

in "terminal mode" I try "X" resulting in:

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock and start again.

... trying "startx" produces an identical message as above then a small pause then this message:

Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up.
xinit: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

Please keep in mind I am very new to linux and know the very basic commands so I really apperciate the help. I have been searching for a fix for couple hours with no luck. Thanks in advance..

o.meyer
7th December 2007, 18:06
Hi Ganther,

please try the following:

Boot the system and afterwards press Ctrl+Alt+F7 - this should switch to the running X-session.

Best regards,

Olli

Ganther
7th December 2007, 23:26
I will try it when I get home, It can't be that easy..

Ganther
7th December 2007, 23:29
Just realized this post should be under the desktop operation. My bad.

Ganther
8th December 2007, 04:00
Hi Ganther,

please try the following:

Boot the system and afterwards press Ctrl+Alt+F7 - this should switch to the running X-session.

Best regards,

Olli


Nope did not work black screen with a waiting mouse cursor

Any other help would be great..

Ganther
8th December 2007, 05:08
ok if I do a init 1 then startx the gui loads up

If I do a init 5 then startx I am getting same error.

xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.2823

Fatal server error:
Server is already active for display 0
If this server is no longer running, remove /tmp/.X0-lock
and start again.

Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 keygiving up.
xinit: Resource temporarily unavailable (errno 11): unable to connect to X server
xinit: No such process (errno 3): Server error.

I have deleted the .X0-lock file. any other suggestions any files you would like me to post that could be causing this issue.