CentOS 5 :: Cannot Find "xterm" To Start A Failsafe Session?
Feb 22, 2010
I just performed a clean install of CentOS 5.4 on a Dell PowerEdge 1950III server. When I booted up for the first time, I begin seeing problems with the following error:There was an error loading the theme TreeFlowerFailed to open file'/usr/share/gdm/themes/TreeFlower/background.png': No such file or directoryOnce I hit OK there I get this:There was an error loading the theme, and the default theme could not be loaded. Attempting to start the standard greeterI then get the standard greeter, and I am able to log in as root. However, once logged in I can open neither Firefox nor a terminal. I can use some programs such as OpenOffice.org, but I cannot use a terminal or a web browser.The next thing I try is to log in to a failsafe terminal session. When I try this I get perhaps the most worrisome error so far:Cannot find "xterm" to start a failsafe session.
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Mar 31, 2010
my when i boot my ubuntu 8.10 i get only xterm failsafe ,however failsafe Gnome does open , i have tried several solutions from the web such as deleting .profile file and some other solutions but none works.here's my .xsession-errors file
Code:
/etc/gdm/Xsessin: beginning session setup...
/etc/gdm/Xsession: Executing default failed ,will try to run x-terminal-emulator
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Jan 21, 2011
What is the Failsafe Session Type that you can select from the KDM login screen supposed to do ? With Squeeze RC1, if I attempt to log in to a failsafe session, I am returned to the KDM login screen. This does not seem very failsafe to me but then I am not a desktop expert. With Lenny (5.0.7), I get a single console window, which, I guess, at least gives one a chance of fixing whatever may be stopping the normal KDE session from starting.
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Aug 8, 2010
when i did that, I turned it back on, and well I had this huge huge problem, i've made a few threads about it. So I had to go through a manual FSCK. I did all that and I do have the cd, although when I try to boot off of the live cd, it gives me a bunch of buffer errors, I have a thread or two about that problem too. So i can't boot off a live cd and fix it through that.
Now i've gotton to the point where I can get to the login screen, it looks normal and everything but when I log into a normal session it greets me with this Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not logged out yourself, this could mean that there is some installation problem or that you may be out of diskspace. Try logging in with one of the failsafe sessions to see if you can fix this problem. View details (~/.xsession-errors file)
Code: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup... Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_US. Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default. mkdtemp: private socket dir: Permission denied
So i have no idea what that all means but i did understand failsafe terminal. So when I go to the failsafe terminal to try and fix things, I'm completely lost. I don't know what to type at all. I'm a windows user most of the time.
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Jan 12, 2010
I can't start a Remote-Session and I'm looking to the log-files at the moment. Where are the logfiles for NX?
I found, but here is nothing inside:
/var/log/nxserver.log [root@headnode1 ~]# cat /var/log/nxserver.log [root@headnode1 ~]#
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Apr 5, 2009
I am new to CentOS and need this urgent help.
On my machine, I am not able to login using any of the user account or root. It's showing this message:
Then comes another message:
YOur session lasted for less than 10 seconds. Try logging using Failsfe.
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session_child_run: Could not exec /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession default
I tried to use the failsafe as well, but nothing seems to work.
Would someone please help me regarding this issue?
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Apr 22, 2011
running Xubuntu 10.04 here. After installing and removing some packages in package manager I'm finding after reboot I cannot logon to the computer. When the correct password is entered the screen goes to black briefly then returns to the logon screen. It appears I can only logon to an xterm session. how to proceed next?
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May 5, 2009
I usually have several xterms open, with each one running a different gnu screen session. It would be useful if--at a glance--I could see the session name in the xterm title bar. That way I would be able to quickly tell which screen sessions are running in which xterms. This would be very useful when alt-tabbing.
I know that there are termcap, terminfo, and termcapinfo commands available, but I don't know how to use these. I also know that there's an $STY environment variable that stores the session name. Also, I do not want to lose my current "hardstatus alwayslastline" bar. It seems like this should be independent from the xterm title, anyways.
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Nov 25, 2010
I have X Window running on one of RHEL Machine 192.168.2.2.I have logined through putty from remote Windows Machine 192.168.2.5. Now What I need to open the xterm (if I run the command through putty it should open xterm in the linux Machine).
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Jul 28, 2010
Is there a command to find out on what xterm I am (gnome, kdm, etc)? I currently have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
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Aug 3, 2010
Just done a fresh install of squeeze (basic install then installed X, WM and a few applications) and I find that I am unable to get an xterm up and running (same goes for rxvt-unicode (urxvt) and uxterm). The same problem occurs with both Openbox and DWM window managers.
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Mar 31, 2010
I'm just tired to fight, can't start even simple xterm:
crontab -e
0 13 * * * /usr/bin/xterm
just nothing
vi /etc/crontab
0 13 * * * root /usr/bin/xterm
guess what
Have tried with cron reloading, changing of shell and lot of other s.
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Aug 4, 2011
Since this morning, I'm having a problem which symptoms are similar to this one : Cannot Login, KDE won't start - OpenSUSE 11.3, but it affects only one user.Everything was fine yesterday, but now, everytime this one user tries to start his KDE session, the screen goes black for a few seconds before coming back to the login screen.
I tried the following :
- I installed LXDE and tried to log in : same problem
- I tried to log in Xterm : no problem
- I created a new user and tried to log in : no problem, be it KDE or LXDE
- I cleared /tmp : same problem. My /home partition is 98% full but still has 2-3GB available. The / partition is 45% full with 28GB left.
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From what I've gathered so far, it seems the problem is user-specific, graphical session-sepcific, but not desktop-specific (since both KDE and freshly installed LXDE fail in the same way)... and now I don't know what else to try.
My setup :
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Linux 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-07-21 02:17:24 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Apr 15, 2009
Recently,i'm studying around X server and client. when i was logining on and typing "init 3" on gnome-terminal in order to terminate x server.my purpose is x server starting through the command "xinit" only.and xterm to be first client for x server may be terminal.i'try typing "a bunch of commands" on tty1 (Ctrl + ALT + F1) to get through my testing .when a short command "xinit" of those without any agruments was executing, xterm was just staying instantly and disappearing soon. others i try commands,alway coming up with errors:Xterm Xt error: can't open display :%sXterm: Display is not set
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Jan 11, 2010
I can't find the start command for Gnome from Terminal.
I tried:
start gnome
startx
start gne
Nothin is matching. In the Documenation is no help from console.
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Jan 22, 2010
I am putting together some new systems for my customer and I'm having some trouble with a script that we use to back up files to a DVD R. The problem is that I can't write a 2nd session to the DVD unless I eject the disk and reload it. The drives are slimline type drives, Sony BD-5730S and Teac DV-W28S-V93, so they won't reload without human intervention. Opsys is CentOS 5.4 or RHEL 5.4. I've tried both AMD and Intel based mother boards. If i try this on Fedora 11 or 12 it works fine. This works on IDE attached drives but not a SATA attached drives. Fedora appears to use something called genisoimage instead of mkisofs. I can't get genisoimage to run on CentOS or RHEL.
Here's the code to setup the test files:
rm -f /tmp/BDtest/*
mkdir /tmp/BDtest
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/BDtest/blank.iso bs=10M count=1
for NUM in {1..160}
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Aug 2, 2010
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Jun 13, 2011
Start xpdf or gv. Click an xterm to be active and slide it over xpdf/gv. Vertical lines from xpdf/gv under the xterm stick to the xterm window above and make it unreadable.
The problem does NOT show with KDE default settings with display effects on but does show in fvwm, xfce etc, and in KDE without effects.
On a system with a Sandy Bridge integrated graphics (i5-2400) the problem went away by downgrading to xf86-video-intel-2.13.0. But it was not enough for another system with 945G which needed downgrading to xf86-video-intel-2.12.0.
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May 2, 2011
i have fluxbox and i need to know how to copy things in xterm and paste them outside of xterm.
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Oct 7, 2010
I use a Windows computer to remotely operate two Centos 5.4 boxes over the Internet. For text or console work I use putty which does an excellent job. But sometimes I need to run a graphical app such as xterm. For that, I use an X Server such as Xming or MobaXterm. Until today, that was working reasonably well. On one Centos, it still does. But on the other one, I started getting an error message that I have not seen before:
[root ]# /usr/bin/system-config-network connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory The application 'system-config-network-gui' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. [root ]# xterm connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [root ]#
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Mar 20, 2009
I just installed CentOS 5.2, and would like for xterm to be my default terminal instead of the gnome-terminal. I was able to do this on a RHEL4 system and Fedora 9, but I can't figure out how to do it in CentOS.
Here's the output of uname:
Linux 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 #1 SMP Tue Dec 16 11:57:43 EST 2008 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
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Jan 21, 2009
I was having problems getting xterm to work via ssh -Y and the problem was that xauth was not installed when I did yum install xterm
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Oct 12, 2009
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Jul 9, 2010
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# I don't know if tty is the exact term to refer to the CTRL+ALT+Fx virtual terminals.
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When KDE starts up a new session, it restores the progs that were running at log out last time.I am running skype and that prog is brought back but I suspect that KDE is restarting the "bin" (skype-bin) rather than the startup script (skpe) which contains the necessary "LD_PRELOAD" stuff essential to get the webcam operating OK.I can't find where KDE stores the session info, any ideas?
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Jul 19, 2010
I am trying to VNC into a server to which I have no physical access (but I can ask someone to start a session or something) but can ssh into. I have gotten a VNC session working by sshing in and running vncserver, although once the VNC session died in a confusing manner.
I don't know how to start a VNC session any way but vncserver, which is odd since I'm sure that Ubuntu's Remote desktop should somehow allow me to do this by default. The server by the way is being used as a desktop by someone else. Also, how do I tell if my VNC is encrypted and if it isn't how do I make sure it is?
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Jul 31, 2010
I'm having issues logging into my system... After authenticating via GDM, the screen goes black with only the mouse showing and remains this way indefinitely. At first the hard disk is active to a similar degree as it was when logins were successful, but then the system (apart from being able to move the mouse) is unresponsive.
If left for long enough so that the screen goes into power-saving mode, moving the mouse brings up the unlock dialogue that you normally get if you set your computer to lock itself after a period of idleness.
I suspect some sort of file corruption, as I have not changed any settings recently. I have forced checks on all of my disks in the hope it would solve this problem. I have also tested logging in on a freshly created user account I created which gives the same result. Also, starting an xterm session from GDM works fine.
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