Thank you for your reply Brain<br><br>oops i have corrupted the entire system i think .<br>but one thing i dont understand is y this has happened all of a sudden<br>i choose to reinstall the cent os again..<br>i heard that cent os is the stable version with less number of crashes..:(<br>
<br><br clear="all">Chaitanya<br><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Brunner, Brian T. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:BBrunner@gai-tronics.com">BBrunner@gai-tronics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Suggest:</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Boot with an install CD/DVD in rescue
mode.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Mount your file system (this should happen
automagically)</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">edit /mnt/sysimage/etc/inittab</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Set your default runlevel to 3 (currently it is set
to 5)</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">quit the rescue, and reboot your hard
drive.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font size="2" color="#0000ff" face="Arial">Now you will have the shell available to debug what goes
wrong when you command 'startx' </font></span></div><br>
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<font size="2" face="Tahoma"><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org" target="_blank">centos-bounces@centos.org</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org" target="_blank">centos-bounces@centos.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Chaitanya
Yanamadala<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:21 AM<br><b>To:</b>
CentOS mailing list<br><b>Subject:</b> [CentOS] your session only lasted less
than 10 seconds error<br></font><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5">
<div></div>hai i have run the halt command from the xshell and the machine got
restarted, now when i restart the machine, i am getting this error . I have
tried to press the CTRL+ALT+F2 and tried to login with the root user but that
one is also not working.<br>can any one help me with this..<br>this the error
message i am getting after i tried to login<br><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">" your session only lasted less
than 10 seconds ...try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if
you can fix the problem"</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">and it published details</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">(.xsession-errors file)</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default:
Registering your session with utmp</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">/etc/gdm/PreSession/Default:
running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/gdm/ :0.Xservers" -h "
" -l ":0" "chaitu"</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">session_child_run: Could not exec
/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession default</span><br style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><br>Regards<br clear="all">Chaitanya<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div>
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