Go to a terminal screen in X and doing: service gdm restart That is the daemon for all mouse operations including X (I think). If you restart it, it should work just fine after re-plugging in the mouse. Personally, I've never been able to crash X by just pulling out the mouse and then putting it back in. As for the "Fontpath: UNIX/7100" error I've not seen that before. Hopefully a true RH guru will help out. Paul Pettit CTO, CCB Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] > On Behalf Of Agrawal, Manish > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2003 9:12 AM > To: 'redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx' > Subject: Redhat 9 crashes > > I am a relative newbie to Linux and Redhat 9 is my distribution of choice. > But I find that it is relatively easy to crash X. > > Yesterday for example, my son accidentally pulled off the mouse chord. X > complained that the mouse was not found and when I inserted the mouse > back, > it complained about Fontpath: UNIX/7100. Since X would not start, I > commented that line in XFree86.conf, X would not start. For newbies like > me, > this is a killer. The only solution I have is to reinstall Redhat. I have > now done that about 4 times in the last 2 months. > > I am wondering if this is common experience or am I missing something? I > hate to have to go into the .conf files to keep my system running. What > can > I do to ensure that my system is immune to crashes arising from minor > accidents? > > Thanks > Manish > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
