[CentOS] your session only lasted less than 10 seconds error

[Chaitanya Yanamadala]

Dear Mark

This is the exact scenario of my machine.
i am running the cent os under my virtual box and i have made a network
bridge to that VBOX

so from my machine i connect to the VBOX using the Xshell.
and by the way i am new to linux and this is my test machine so that i do
some testing.
this is the F reason i am using the root user.
what ever os is it i dont think logging in as root user will crash the
system.

regarding the halt command i used it to check what this command will do and
this one i have done from the F manual only.

but now my VBOX machine crashed.



Chaitanya




On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:38 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:

> Chaitanya wrote:
> > Thank you for your reply Brain
> >
> > oops i have corrupted the entire system i think .
> > but one thing i dont understand is y this has happened all of a sudden
> > i choose to reinstall the cent os again..
> > i heard that cent os is the stable version with less number of
> crashes..:(
> >
> It is, very much so. You haven't given us *any* idea as to what you,
> personally, did to break the system. You say you halted it - did you mean
> to turn the system off? If you'd just intended to restart it, you should
> have used the command reboot.
>
> And were you running as root? Do you normally log in as root? If so, STOP
> IT, NOW. This is *not* Windows, and you should *never* log in as root,
> unless you're doing system maintenance. You should ALWAYS log in as
> yourself, or as a user, *not* root. (Yes, I'm repeating myself: pay
> attention.)
>
> Btw, try RTFM.
>
>       mark
> >
>
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Brunner, Brian T.
> > <BBrunner at gai-tronics.com
> >> wrote:
> >
> >>  Suggest:
> >> Boot with an install CD/DVD in rescue mode.
> >> Mount your file system (this should happen automagically)
> >> edit /mnt/sysimage/etc/inittab
> >> Set your default runlevel to 3 (currently it is set to 5)
> >> quit the rescue, and reboot your hard drive.
> >>
> >> Now you will have the shell available to debug what goes wrong when you
> >> command 'startx'
> >>
> >>  ------------------------------
> >> *From:* centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org]
> *On
> >> Behalf Of *Chaitanya Yanamadala
> >> *Sent:* Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:21 AM
> >> *To:* CentOS mailing list
> >> *Subject:* [CentOS] your session only lasted less than 10 seconds error
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> can any one help me with this..
> >> this the error message i am getting after i tried to login
> >>
> >> " 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"
> >> and it published details
> >> (.xsession-errors file)
> >> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: Registering your session with utmp
> >> /etc/gdm/PreSession/Default: running: /usr/bin/sessreg -a -u
> >> /var/run/utmp
> >> -x "/var/gdm/ :0.Xservers" -h " " -l ":0" "chaitu"
> >> session_child_run: Could not exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession default
> >>
> >> Regards
> >> Chaitanya
> >>
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