[Sussex] Cloned disk won't boot

[Steve 'Dobbo' Dobson]

Brenban

On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 03:30:39PM +0100, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> I created a mirrored copy of an FC6 system using the embedded program in 
> a SATA raid controller. The cloned disk boots, switches to GUI mode and 
> displays the login screen. When I login I get "Your session lasted less 
> than 10 seconds....session_child_run: Could not exec 
> /etc/X11/xinit/Xsession default"  "Could not start the session due to 
> internal error"  The same happens in failsafe mode. As an aside, I got 
> the same problem when I tried cloning by copying each partition in 
> turn.  How can I overcome the problem? Thanks, Brendan

I've seen the same message on non-cloned systems from time to time when I've
there have been big updates to the graphics system (in Debian testing so I 
was not surprised).

I logged in on a console (Ctrl + Alt + F1) and moved all the .gnome* and 
.ICEauthority files to a safe place.

    $ mkdir SAFE
    $ mv .gnome* SAFE
    $ mv .ICEauthority SAFE

And then found I could log in okay.  If you're using KDE there will be
similar files but I don't know what they are.

What this does is clear out the config they you had and when you login the 
system then uses defaults and creates a new set of config.  The downside is
that you need to re-configure your graphics session to your preferences again,
but at least it will get you in.  Buy moving the old config files to a safe
place at least you can review what your old config setting where.

Hope this helps
Steve
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