This has only happened recently (within the past few days) which is odd. I used Mint 4 for about a month or two but then I screwed stuff up and decided to check out Ubuntu 8.04 and had massive problems with that for some reason so I decided to go back to mint for since it (almost) always worked well for me. Installation and everything went fine and it booted into mint as expected. I started updating, customizing and tweaking some stuff and once everything was done I rebooted and was brought to a terminal instead of KDM, I assumed it was a driver problem or something so I logged in and typed startx and got this error:
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Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-open.c: 260: dl_open_worker: Assertion `_dl_debug_initialize (0, args->nsid)->r_state == RT_CONSISTENT' failed!
giving up.
xinit: connection refused (errno 111): unable to connect to xserver
xinit: no such process (errno 3): server error
I tried a few things but nothing seemed to fix it, so I figured I would reinstall everything since I wouldnt really lose anything. All went well again but I didnt format my home partition, seeing as it wouldnt effect anything. Everything went just as before, the initial bootup and login were fine but this time I only removed packages I knew I wouldnt use and werent important (kde apps, Xorg wacom drivers, laptop stuff), enabled all the repositories except romeo (just as i did before), reloaded the sources, and selected mark updates and had it download everything. When everything was done I rebooted and the same thing happened.
I have no idea why this is happening or what is going on here. Another weird thing I noticed is that I used the same DVD for all three installs (initial which worked fine, the second and third ones which screwed up almost immediately) and the first install went flawlessly but on the second and third ones grub kept saying mint.message was missing.
The only thing I can think of that I did differently between installs is I think I didnt use the computer at all while it was installing the first time, but the second and third times I was using the computer to browse sites and other random things, I wouldnt think this would affect the installation since my computer is relatively high end and I just built it in January.
I still have access to the installation so I can retrieve any logs or anything if necessary.
Thanks In Advance