Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 16:23:57 -0700 (PDT) From: anthony baldwin <mrbaldwin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: xserver crash Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Uh-oh...
I logged out to let my sister have the machine for a few minutes
to check her e-mail and as soon as I did the xserver crashed.
I have never had this problem. I have only been using linux for about a
year, so I'm a little clueless what to do.
I did try to allow the machine to reconfigure and restart x, but it could not.
I'm afraid that without the graphical environment I'm a little lost.
I tried:
& XFree86-config
Xfree86-config is gone. Try to run redhat-config-xfree86. That is the RH replacement. This program should try to statr X and configure the server again.
Also, mouse mis-configuration can cause X not to start, as previous posts state.
Jim C.
and a few other variations, but that didn't work (stop laughing at me).
So...I suppose I might use my iBook and jump on redhat on freenode to get some help, but any suggestions would be most welcomed.
(Had to boot Yech! windows 98 on this box to send this message. I haven't booted windows in about 9 months...this sucks.)
I'm afraid that I don't even know where to begin looking to solve this issue, but if you can guide me to ask the right questions, perhaps together we can find the problem.
I did look at the root mail in Pine and it seemed like it was saying
there were db4 and dbd3 errors, and, to me this seems odd, maybe a problem with yum? I don't know what yum has to do with the xserver...
I just thought yum was a nifty pkg mgr tool. I only downloaded it about a week or two before this upgrade.
Anyway, I can find my way into pine to check those messages again, but
I don't know what to look for or how to interpret most of what is there.
Any suggestions would be most highly appreciated.
I'm just so shocked. The install went great and there have been no xserver issues for the past 3 days (since upgrade).
I thought this only happened to Debian systems...
tony
http://www.School-Library.net Freedom to Learn!
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Check me out. I, the ranting newbie, the linux yearling with the flowing pen and bad descriptive habits, have X running again. I checked the server output to find : (EE) i810: Failed to laod module "ddc" (module does not exist, 0) So I looked at XF86Config in Pico and found nothing referring to "ddc" and whas lost. I got a little help from #xfree86 and determined where libddc.a was supposed to be...but had disappeared. I eventually solvd the problem with the RH cds, reloaded X entirely. But, see, I am not completely helpless.
Anyway, can;t figure out why it was working then the module just disappeared.
Hope my hdd is not going south...Doesn;t seem to be a shrike problem, anyways, so I'll find something else to ramble on about soon enough.
tony
Message: 13 To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: scrape the possum From: Harry Putnam <hgp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 17:32:59 -0700 Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx
I hereby nominate Anthony B for some kind of inovation award for his Subject line and description of the problem....!
Stop it! You're making me blush, like a deacon who has lost his drawers
in a poker game...
tony
http://www.School-Library.net Freedom to Learn!
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