Did a few modifications, nothing that I remember as major (yes, I logged in as root out of laziness). Added a line to dhcpd.conf (net-bios name-server..) and changed a samba line or two. Printer stopped working with some sort of 'out of space' error. Messed with it and finally rebooted. Now I can't get into X. When it tries to start X it flashes the screen multiple times for about five minutes, then says gpm was killed/murdered and it shows multiple messages with gpm with a higher pid each time. Says it'll try again in 5 minutes. Can run as level 3 OK (init 3). Reran Xconfigurator and it does fine, meaning that when it tests at the end, the test box comes up OK. So can I fix it? Can I reinstall just some of the partitions if I can't? I have 8 gig of data on a separate (hdb) drive as /home that I can't lose.

Did you change the name of the machine? Can you run X from init 3 using the startx command? is this Redhat 6.x? try running xdm or kdm if you have it (from init 3) what happens?

Is your network still working? Try pinging your gateway from the CL. In some cases the X server may not start properly if there are certain network problems.

A few followups. The network is still OK. I can still get to the samba shares from the other hosts. Everything still seems to be OK except I can't get X to start (I'm typing startx from init 3). The messages say: -FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno=111 failed to set default font path 'unix/:-1' Fatal Server error: could not open default font 'fixed' X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown) xdm and gdm doesn't work. Just a bunch of screen flashes.