Prob with user log-off and X!

[James Richard Tyrer]

DennisMail at gmx.net wrote:
> I know that this is quite a lot of stuff, but I believe every detail of this
> problem has to to with the other ones. Here we go:
> I tried a tool called dl, but didn´t pay attention where I launched it, so
> that it zipped the whole dir /home/user1 and deleted its contents afterwards
> (expect the hidden files and dirs). I copied all back from the zipped file and
> since then the problems began. It may happen (it does actually not every
> time!) that when I log off user1, X tries to start over, but doesn´t succeed. On
> the text concole, I can log on as root, as whom I try to launch X again.
> Here´s the error message:
> 
> //Beginn of error message
> (II) [GLX]: Calling GlxExtensionInit
> Inconsitency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h: 435:
> elf_machine_rel_relative: Assertion `((reloc->r_info) & 0xff) == 8´ failed!
> Warning: connect() failed: No such file or directory
> Error: Can´t contact kdeinit
> //End of error message
> 
> The part from "Inconsitency" to "or directory" is repeated three times.
> 
> After this error occurs, another strange thing may happen (but does not
> always!): When I shut down or reboot the system, it doesn´t unmount the
> root-partition, so that I have to reset the computer and accept the forced check on
> next boot.
> 
> Another point is, that when I try to start yast2 (yep, I´m using SuSE 8.0)
> as this user1, it does not always work (the windows asking for root passwd
> doesn´t appear). In a shell, the error is that it can´t connect to the x-server.
> As other users (normal ones), all seem to work fine. Can it be possible that
> a user with incorrect local setting files can cause such errors? Or are
> those problems independent from each other?
> 
> I hope that someone can help me!
> 


I hope that all you did was screw up LD.SO's cache.

execute (as root):

	init 1

Then after that runs and you get the bash prompt:

	rm /etc/ld.so.cache

	ldconfig

and reboot the system either with: "reboot".

--
jRT




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