>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 07:14:11 -0400 >From: Audioslave - 7M3 - Live <creed7m3live@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: xserver crash, etc. >Reply-To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > >anthony baldwin wrote: >>>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. > That failed. I did try it. The problem is that libddc.a and a few others had somehow gotten out of line or disappeared (hdd hiccough?). >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... I finally determined that the error was (EE) i810: Failed to load module "ddc" (module does not exist (0) I checked my XF86Config and could find nothing even erferring to this moduel. I went to #xfree86 on freenode and someone told me to find libddc.a which was nowhere to be found. (input/output error when checking the directory in which they were to reside... So I reloaded the modules from the RH CDs and I am back up and running. Worried about my hdd, but running... tony >>>tony >>> >>>http://www.School-Library.net >>>Freedom to Learn! >>> >>>-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >>>GED$/L/P/FA d? s: a C++ L++ W++ N++ K- w--- M+ PS++ >>>PE-- Y+ PGP- t+ tv-- b++(b++++) D? G e++++ h++ r--- y? >>>------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ >>> >> >> >> 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 >> _____________________________________________________________ School-Library.net Freedom to Learn! _____________________________________________________________ Select your own custom email address for FREE! Get you@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx w/No Ads, 6MB, POP & more! http://www.everyone.net/selectmail?campaign=tag
