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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100512/20a3a58e/attachment-0004.html>