amd64, updated to today's rawhide. integrated ati xpress 200 chip. It's worked for over a year, now startx just goes to black. No problem in syslog, or Xorg.0.log. The console window shows: X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: Fedora Core 7 Red Hat, Inc. Current Operating System: Linux amd64-jfb 2.6.23-0.71.rc2.fc8 #1 SMP Sat Aug 4 01:21:06 EDT 2007 x86_64 Build Date: 01 August 2007 Build ID: xorg-x11-server 1.3.0.0-16.fc8 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue Aug 7 08:49:34 2007 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in (II) Module already built-in Warning, xpress200 detected. Probably won't work. xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): Cannot register with ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.CkConnector.Error: Unable to open session: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory warning: /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/tmp does not end in .sh extension, ignoring The application 'gnome-session' lost its connection to the display :0.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. xinit: connection to X server lost. I tried strace xinit. It ended with this: ....................... open("/usr/share/locale/locale.alias", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=2528, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x2aaab142f000 read(3, "# Locale name alias data base.\n#"..., 4096) = 2528 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 munmap(0x2aaab142f000, 4096) = 0 open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_US.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en_US/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.UTF-8/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en.utf8/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/gtk20.mo", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib64/charset.alias", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "\n(gnome-session:3142): Gtk-WARNI"..., 62 (gnome-session:3142): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: ) = 62 exit_group(1) = ? But gtk20.mo does NOT exist, anyplace. I think this used to be provided by gtk2, which is installed. Could this be the reason X server dies? If so, where is gtk20.mo? sean -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list