Re: lost the grub bootloader to Fedora 5 because windows formatting..how can I get it back


Michael Heiming wrote:
In comp.os.linux.misc danish <me.linuxadmin@xxxxxxxxx>:

danish wrote:
[ overwritten bootloader config fixed ]

But now thr seems to be a new problem. Im not able to boot into the
desktop as a normal user..I get the login screen but as i enter
username and password of the normal user the machine gets restarted
after 5 sec...It is only as root that I got the desktop...
This is my /var/log/messages
Jun 16 19:33:13 codec ainit:
Jun 16 19:33:13 codec ainit:
Jun 16 19:33:13 codec gdm[1930]: gdm_auth_user_add: Could not write
cookie

It seems one or more fs are mounted read-only, check 'mount' for
anything related or/and there's a mess in /tmp or your $HOME
preventing gdm from writing there, clean up /tmp and check $HOME
for .Xauthority and alike files not owned by your user.

[..]

Good luck

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Sir,
What led you to the conclusion that thr is a mess in /tmp.
Though I sorted the problem, /home/danish was 100% full so X, as you
had mentioned was not able to write thr..and because of which it was
not able to start

But Im confused about ur suggestion regarding /tmp

Thank you
Danish

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