[Solved] Re: Problems with X.org not related to xorg.conf

[Peter Garrett]

On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 21:09:14 -0300
redondos <redondos at gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem seemed to be related to the / partition being screwed up. A fsck 
> fixed it, hopefully not momentarily. I found out what went wrong when trying 
> to reinstall dbus: the partition was mounted read-only! But that happened 
> during the last of many reboots the system had while I was trying to solve 
> the problem.

Looks like you sorted it out anyway - but I think the errors you were
seeing re: "cannot open display" were related to kdm or the session still
running, even though it wasn't obvious. If you had done

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm stop

then either 

startx `which startkde`   or

sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restart (or just "start")

I think the error would have disappeared.

Peter