[ale] magic dev problem

[James P. Kinney III]

Power down and unplug the DVD drive and then boot. The hardware
detection (kudzu) will ask about it. Select remove. After the system
finishes booting, do a shutdown. Reattach the drive and reboot. Accept
the configuration from the kudzu process. 

On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 09:15, ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> 1. I have a box with RedHat 8.0 (and updated everything via up2date).
> 
> 2. I opened the computer, took the DVD player off IDE channel 2, and made it 
> slave to channel 1. (I also changed out a power supply)
> 
> 3. When I try to go into X, the computer crashes at MagicDev.
> 
> 4. There is an error that can sometimes be seen saying "invalid MagicDev 
> cookie"
> 
> 5. I log in as a user, remove .ICEauthority and .Xauthority, then go to 
> /etc/fstab and remove the line relating to /dev/cdrom and it successfully 
> goes into X
> 
> 6. Tried logging in X again the next day and same problem with the same 
> solution. 
> 
> 7. How do I fix this problem permanently?
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