On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Due to a faulty fan, one CPU overheated and brought the system down. On > restart, fsck indicated that some filesystem corruption occured. > > On startup, gdm would not start. After entering my username in the > console, the login prompt came back without giving me the opportunity to > enter my password. The logical next step, booting in single user mode. > > In single user mode, it quickly appeared that a few programs segfault.
I had similar symptoms once. Segfaults and apparently corrupted disk files. It turned out to be a bad memory SIMM. Try running memtest86 for awhile (10 minutes to an hour or more; depends on how much memory you have and how fast the cpu is). After I replaced the memory, I reinstalled all packages "in-place" (declining any config files) to refresh any files that may have been bad. Made me feel better, at least. ...RickM...
