Paul, Thank you so much for responding with anything! I would love to get that information from you if possible. As soon as I read that, I thought you know that sounds entirely possible! Thanks Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: <Paul.Sherman@med.va.gov> To: <newbie@XFree86.Org> Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 6:09 AM Subject: RE: Re: No DFP Detected Updated > I had a similar problem earlier this year (and late > last year). However it was a 3.3.* version. > > What happened was that I didn't have enough space left in > /tmp for X to fully open. > > I saw a reference to core dumps - I had to delete all those, > they're usually memory hogs and won't help anything at this point. > > If you need to know how to find them, let me know. I still > have that data here, someplace (I have no memory, but > computers have lots - luckily). > > Here's what happened to me (from an earlier posting...) > > Last month I wrote in because X was crashing at start up. > Thanks to Ted Spradley and Jarmo Paavilainen I tracked down > one culprit - not enough space in the root directory due to a > core dump file. I pitched the file and got X going again. > > About 10 days ago it happened again, even after following > the (very valid) suggestions to minimize root use. > > What I found (finally) all via command line - > > 1. I used 'df' to discover that '/' was 100% full again > > 2. I used 'find -time -n' to locate all files that had been modified since > X started working again. > > 3. I then used 'du' in the respective directories to find which files > were memory hogs. > > 4. I found Netscape is located in the root directory. > Its cache file grew every time I used it, in any account. > the cache files had grown large enough to consume all space left > in the '/' partition. > > 5. I removed all the cache files via the command line, freeing up > enough space to allow X to start again. > > Hope this helps a bit. > > Paul Sherman > Biomedical Engineer > VA Center for Engineering & Occupational Safety and Health > (CEOSH) > St. Louis, MO > Paul.Sherman@med.va.gov > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael Wells [SMTP:mwvw@adelphia.net] > > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:15 AM > > To: newbie@XFree86.Org > > Subject: Re: No DFP Detected Updated > > > > this is ridiculous. So the same thing has happened as > > before. I was able to run X as another user for > > one session. I had to reboot the machine and > > as soon as I come back on X crashes again. > > If anyone can even point me in a direction to start > > hunting I would appreciate it. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie _______________________________________________ Newbie@XFree86.Org *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
