My company has a Fedora 7 Filer Server (running SMB). Recently due to our relocation, we have to shut it down numerous times, and shuting down seem to be even harder as the server wont shut down. (Shut down from the GUI takes forever, the process freezes right after asking the server to shut down, and all I saw was half of the wallpaper. Nothing happens after that).

I am guessing that because it freezes, and I did a hard shut down by cutting the power, this might have cause the error message "init: Id "x" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes." at start-up, and a number error messages on something about "not a directory" (Although from sites googled, they say it has got to do with the GUI, most likely gnome?). I  waited for more that 5 minutes and nothing happens, so I am not sure what to do. At the end I decided to hard power off the server

I am new to linux and honestly I am quite useless without a GUI. Hence any resources to get the server running, even without GUI, is much appreciated.

Another note, I follow some advice I read online, so I Ctrl+C and tried to login, but I couldn't, I am not sure if the syntax is wrong or the timing is.

Ctrl+C gets some thing like this:

-samba login:

So I tried using root

-samba login: root

Result? I keep geting "samba login:" and now way of input of the root password. (FYI Samba is the name of the File Server)

Appreciate any help given.

Regards,

Jonathan